Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

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.

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.

Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.

I grew up in a Navy family.

My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.