The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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

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

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Nature is not human hearted.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

No man was ever wise by chance.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Those whom the gods love grow young.