Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

A prototype is a question embodied

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.