"Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?" - JEAN COCTEAU, quoted in Look

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - STEPHEN LEACOCK, Literary Lapses

"You can take it as understood
That your luck changes only if it's good."
- OGDEN NASH, Roulette Us Be Gay

"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men." - E.B. WHITE, One Man's Meat