“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”

“It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.”

“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.”

“He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.”

“The thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought.”

“There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning…. two very different paths… To be truly happy a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what has gone before and no thought of what lies ahead; but a for a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.”