“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”

“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

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

“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

“Good music always defeats bad luck.”

“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”

“There is no excuse whatever for uncritically accepting what one takes over from others. For no thing is good or bad in itself, only as it relates to specific circumstances and to our own intentions. This fact means that there is nothing guaranteed or absolute about conventions; it gives us the daily responsibility of distinguishing good from bad.”

“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”