The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.