Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

We cannot learn men from books.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Knowledge is power.

We are wiser than we know.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Common sense is not so common.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.