Wisdom

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life.

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.

Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

In a true tragedy both parties must be right.

An old man's advice is not an opinion.

Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you.

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.