Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

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.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

Young people need models, not critics.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.