“the best people have the rottenest luck”

“Slow good luck is best.”

“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”

“The author of The Prophet not only has the good luck to have talent, he has also the talent to have good luck.”

“As ill-luck would have it.”

“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t.”