“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

We’ve got no fairytale ending, in God’s hands our fate is complete. Your heaven’s here in my heart, our love’s this dust beneath my feet.

Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.

So let’s take the good times as they go and I’ll meet you further on up the road.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

It’s a fairytale so tragic there’s no prince to break the spell. I don’t believe in magic, but for you I will.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see. And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright, and that’s alright with me.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Music doesn’t tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That’s what it told me.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

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

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Everything in life is luck.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

It’s awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship. It’s awful worse luck not to.

The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.