Quotes About Wisdom

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

If I were to publicly give away my secrets, I'd be dumb. I am an intelligent woman who is focused on the prize.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.

Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.

I am getting old, but it works in this job. I'm so slow now that I can't get out of the way of the puck.

I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

I have learnt from experience that being insecure never helps, and neither does pulling anyone's leg.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.

I'm not stupid. After you just punch me, I'm not gonna be like, 'Alright, let me do that again.'

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.

Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

Pundits will be pundits. We don't think too much of the punditry.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Sometimes the only way to realize what a foolish purchase is is to make one.

Purchased experiences don't count.