“Men do not know how to appreciate or measure luck except that of others. Their own never.”

“Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.”

“Journalism attracts people with exceptional linguistic talent, but I have found that very few have the mathematical sophistication to appreciate the difference between skill and luck.”

“The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.”

“Thus must we toil in other men's extremes,
That know not how to remedy our own.”

“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.”

“It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.”

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

“luck runs out but blessings never do!”

“Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.”