Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

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.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.