"But life doesn’t happen by chance or because of a stroke of luck. The laws of the Universe operate mathematically to the finest possible degree; that is something you can count on!"
"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the
opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) WRITER
"Well?" I say.
"Well what?"
"The gallows does well. But how does it well? It does well to those that do ill," I reply,
...Hence it doesn't matter that you feel continuously reduced to silence, that your own discourse seems to you smothered beneath the monstrous discourse of the amorous subject: in 
Teorema the "other" does not speak, but he inscribes something within each of those who desire him—he performs what the mathematicians call a catastrophe (the disturbance of one system by another): it is true that this mute figure is an angel.
A Lover's Discourse, 
Roland Barthes
"Money is a means to what you want, but it’s not the end result..."
"But when gratitude is your way of life, you attract magical situations all the time! Many people call it good luck, but it’s not luck at all; it’s Universal law."