It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

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.

Remember, you are training your mind. You are either training to look for things to go wrong or you are training it to look for anything to go right. Train yourself to think only positive thoughts.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.