Opportunity

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"

Nothing is worth more than this day

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises

Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time

Love is a fruit in season at all times

There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him

Zuhause ist, wo ich arbeite, und ich arbeite überall

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure

We are asleep until we fall in love

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions