"The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"Opportunity makes a thief"

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

"America is another name for opportunity"

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough"

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity"

"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so"

"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance"