Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

Finding the right one is never easy. Especially, when the wrong one looks so right.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth." "How can you be sure?" "Because she'd do the same for you.

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band