It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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.

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

Quite honestly, ... there's never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That's all real, no (computer trickery).