Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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.

You were born for a reason and with a specific purpose in mind. You don’t choose it, you discover it.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.