Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

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.

What we could consider magic, may just be science that we don’t understand yet.

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention.

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.