Wisdom

Education is the best provision for old age.

Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly understand it, one has to be objective and cool.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

Falderson,' he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, 'is as stupid as the day is long.' He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. 'In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

Right knowledge (samikit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, ‘this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.’ There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you.

Being real is being true to you.

Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an icon, let him be our oriflamme.

Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

There’s no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.''Good, because I didn’t mean to. It’s a habit with females, that’s all, saying sorry all the time when there’s absolutely no need. . .

If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

The world is a thick bookand I am a big bookworm.

Truth and falsehood pass through the same lips and leave no mark, the devil does not cease to be the devil just because he may have spoken the truth.

The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.

To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.

Your time, energy and words.Three things you can never get back once they've been exchanged. Choose wisely.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Somethings are simply better left the way they are.

Don't ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.