The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.
I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.
If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
In every endeavor, you owe it to yourself to always push until the door of opportunity of opens.
Never settle in any circle that is not fully committed to forever walk in the direction of endless opportunities and possibilities.
Opportunities to climb to greater heights will surely come. But the question is, are you ready to seize them when they do?
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.
I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
