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

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

The future will be better tomorrow.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

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.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

If you wished to be loved, love.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The cautious seldom err.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

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

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.