“You can create your good fortune only by your good intention for others.....”

“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

“The only way to sustain momentum of good fortune is to continually increase the good fortune of others.”

“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.”

“I hope you appreciate the magnitude of your impending good fortune.”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”