Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

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.

A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing.

Clear skies do not promise rain.

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. (on the Champions league Final)

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.