Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.