A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma

A great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Denis Waitley

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
Robert Emmet

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Wilson Mizner

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
Anna Held

Action makes more fortune than caution.
Charlotte Whitton

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Anita Brookner

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
Bill Mumy