Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

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.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

It is enough to know, too much to see.

We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

You have the optimism of a child. (Julian) Peter Pan all the way. (Grace)

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.