“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Always desire to learn something useful.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.

A lie never lives to be old.

It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they’re getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.

Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.