“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.”
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
“You can create your good fortune only by your good intention for others.....”
“How few things good fortune prizes!'Yes, the day you are fortunate is also the day when you are the most unfortunate, for in good fortune you cannot imagine what suffering is.”
“The only way to sustain momentum of good fortune is to continually increase the good fortune of others.”
“...good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still, for years it all seemed to me to be blindingly beautiful. And it was.”