Wisdom

Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.

The good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

No matter what you say to someone else, you always hear it first.

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds.

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.

For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin,An animal was murdered for garments made of skin.When figs of human effort produced religious strife,The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.