When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‚mince about‘ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

War is the province of danger.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Obscenity comes from grime.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Words are loaded pistols.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.