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.

When perseverance becomes a force of habit, success becomes a guarantee.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.

How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I'm a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.

The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.