God provides the men and women needed for each generation.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

Rejection makes you uglier, acceptance makes you, all the more, good-looking!

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

I was going to die, but I didn't have to grovel.

Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.