Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

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.

No one but a fool is always right.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Common sense is not so common.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Opportunity makes a thief.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.