It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.