Opportunity

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

The first option is almost always covered. That's why the play is designed to create multiple opportunities

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed

Out of difficulties grow miracles

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

Remember that lost time does not return.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character