Quotes About Wisdom

It's important to have the right mix of experience and youth.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

The lifestyle I grew up with is still the lifestyle I live now: things in moderation, be smart with what you have.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won't believe it in five years' time.

My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.

The best advice-giver in my family definitely has to be my mom.

Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

You have to learn from bad moments.

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.