“that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery”

“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

“Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.”

“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”

“He looked at his face carefully in the glass, put a big dab of lather on each cheek-bone. "It's an honest face. It's a face any woman would be safe with.""She'd never seen it.""She should have. All women should see it. It's a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face.”

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”