Quotes About Wisdom

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Yonder showed me the ropes about life, showed me the ropes about baseball life; he showed me a lot that I couldn't have learned by myself.

I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do.

Sometimes, the easiest route is not the best route.

We moralize among ruins.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

I know a lot of marathon runners who are at their best when they are close to 40. You say to yourself, 'It's 42 kilometres and they are 37 or 38 years old,' but the body can. What you have to make sure you don't lose is your head. That is the most important thing.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

I learned a lot from Russell T. Davies, who is the most wonderful writer.

It is good to be Dr. Ruth.

There are definitely times when taking a sack is a better play than doing something else and trying to make a play when something is not there.

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.