It is better to be envied than pitied.

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.

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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.