If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
A child like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
The 50 50 90 rule: Anytime you have a 50 50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
