When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

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.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Be grateful for the grace of a new day.

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's going to be done.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.