There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit

Truth is more important than modesty

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.' 'Do we have the right plan?' 'Not yet.' 'Do we have any plan?' 'Not yet.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.

Reach what you cannot

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.