I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Our best thoughts come from others.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.