Quotes About Wisdom

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

My father always told me to be myself and say what you think is the right thing; sometimes you pay the consequences, but it means tomorrow will be a happy day for you.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

The secret of making a mistake is not to regret it, or regret it until a certain point, but to learn from it.

The secret of a good marriage is don't ask too many questions.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

When she was teaching us to garden, cook, read, clean, sew, she said she was preparing us for life. Well, life has changed a lot in the years since she was my age, but somehow the lessons haven't really changed. They've evolved. And I want to be part of that.

Damn, boy. Look at you. You're almost as old as me." "Hardly." Ricky laughed. "Look at you. You're getting gray, what's this?" "Melinda, naturally. She's working me over. You should be careful, Rick. Strong, sexy women? They'll kill you slow." "What a way to go, huh?" "Yeah,

The thing about the hard times, the stupid times, they make you who you are. And regrets—I look back and ask myself if I didn't do a certain thing that I'm really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn't been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness?

Love...is an able master; he teaches us to be what we never were before. —MOLIÈRE

There comes a time in every life when the curtain is coming down, and when that time is present and there's no way to turn back the clock, the best answer is dignity and peace.

scars are much tougher than virgin skin.

Is there any way to keep them from paying for our mistakes?" "Yeah. They'll eventually make enough of their own to take the heat off. Meanwhile, we just have to stay strong and know we are doing the best we can.