Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

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.

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.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

The lesser is the contact with the outside, the greater is the contact with inside.

Peacemaking is a noble vocation . . . To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.

My heart hurts that means I’m alive.

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.