Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

Whoever desire to learn, shall delight in reading.

My body is a holy temple.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

The first group started along the strait and narrow path, but they did not take hold of the iron rod that would keep them on the path, and they got lost in the mists of darkness

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.