All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes — and is ready to receive it. – Robert Collier
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity. – Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. Its not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. – Augusten Burroughs
Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. – Joel Robuchon
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt
