Haste in every business brings failures.

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.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.