If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

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.

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.