“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”

“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“I hear a new tone when acquaintances ask how I am, a tone I have not before noticed and find increasing distressing, even humiliating: these acquaintances seem as they ask impatient, half concerned, half querulous, as if no longer interested in the answer.As if all too aware that the answer will be a complaint.I determine to speak, if asked how I am, only positively. I frame the cheerful response.What I believe to be the cheerful response as I frame it emerges, as I hear it, more in the nature of a whine.Do not whine, I write on an index card. Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

“I want to believe that even though the world's edges have become harder, I maybe be able to find a warm, soft place in it.”