If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

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.

our earth is the most beautiful mother :)

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.

Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.