What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive.

You're desperate, and so am I, ' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

Watch it, loincloth, I’m not afraid to spork your eyes out.

Fear is sand in the machinery of life.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.