Quotes About Wisdom

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.

Intelligence is a moral category.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I don't think past experiences guarantee anything and I don't think you can rest on your morals.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

I've learned that whether it's with your skin or your hair, less is more. People go and do so much to it, I don't think that's good. Too much product is not good, so I think that's probably the best thing. And not the most expensive thing is the best thing. That's for sure. I've learned that the hard way.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.

One doesn't win by chance. One doesn't lead a business to make a €1 billion or €500 million if he is a moron.

As you get older, you're humbled by the fact that you're a moron.

I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge.

My mortal Guru was my Irish-Christian brother who taught me how to do everything and gave me my moral values. My spiritual Guru are my parents.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

I've been aware of my own mortality since I was 12.