Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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.

It doesn’t matter what’s wrong with him. We’re not going to act like he doesn’t exist. Not anymore.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.