Great things are won by great dangers.

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.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different