For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

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.

Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that, ... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films.

Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.