We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

Success always demands a greater effort.