preparation

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own."

"What is quite unlooked for is more crushing in its effect, and unexpectedness adds to the weight of a disaster."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people."

"What is quite unlooked for is more crushing in its effect, and unexpectedness adds to the weight of a disaster."

"Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing."