This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power 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.

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward…!

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

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