History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

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.

The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

Not every hard worker can be a leader

I understand, gentlemen, ” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.