"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner."

"It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations."

"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."

"One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history."