“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”

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

“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.”

“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”

“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”

“he was undoing the wooden box, and he took out the silver sword. "This is the best of my treasures," he said. "It will bring me luck. And it will bring you luck, because you gave it to me. I don't tell anybody my name - it is not safe. But because you gave me the sword and I didn't borrow it, I will tell you."”

“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.”

“Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me.”

“I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.”