“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.”

“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.”

“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

“Luck must be dealt with like health: enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad.”

“When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”

“When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.”

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”