“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”

“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

“Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”

“You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.”

“Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”

“If money didn’t exist, would you still get up every morning and do what you do for a living?”

“Getting out was a bit like making your way through a jungle: if you know the way and all the hazards that lie before you the chances of getting through are good; if you know nothing the tendency is to take chances based on intuition, with unknown results.”