All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

If you're comfortable on a horse, you're comfortable on a horse. It's like being on a motorbike.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.