Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

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.

Unclean life is ungodliness.

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.