Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

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.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

Clothes don't make a man. They only make an impression and even then, you dress to suit the occasion.

If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.