“The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence. ”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Dow”

“As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the attitude of the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a "science" of meaningful coincidences. The classical Chinese texts did not ask what causes what, but rather what "likes" to occur with what.”

“When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.”

“To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame”