It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

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.

Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.

What you believe your future holds for you impacts your attitude, decisions and success.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

Family makes a house a home.

You write about what you know.

The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.