#Chance

"It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence,"said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design."

"Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."

"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."

"I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street"

"I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get."

"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."

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

"Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success."

"Life provides chances to open your heart all the time."

"How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

"The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to."

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"

"I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries."

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven."

"Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success."

"An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same."

"I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself."

"Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose."