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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

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

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The worst men often give the best advice.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

The wisest have the most authority.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

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

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

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.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

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.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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