“What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?”

“Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!”

“if you wanted special things to happen in your life, then you had to damn well get up of your own backside and make them happen yourself.”

“A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.”

“...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.”

“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”