Quotes About Wisdom

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.

I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

You learn that you can't take what's happened in the previous years for granted.

Michael and I both know that had we tried to have a child and get married in the previous time we were together, it probably would not have ended pretty. We both had a lot of growing up to do.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Good council has no price.

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things that are going to help me not just in football but in life, which is priceless.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.