Fortune favors the prepared mind.
No wind favors him who has no destined port.
God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!" "See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars." And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.