Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.