Quotes About Wisdom

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.