The destiny of man is in his own soul.

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 caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

It is always possible to improve.

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.