“Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.”

“There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.”

“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.Fate. Luck. Chance.”

“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”

“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”