The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

 

 

 

 

“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.”

 

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

 

“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

 

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”

 

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”