Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Ben Stein, (Nov 25 1944-____), US actor, author, game show host; He is best known as Mr. Cantwell, the science teacher, on The Wonder Years; was also MC for Win Ben Stein's Money.