There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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

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

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

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

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

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

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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.

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

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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

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

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

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

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.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.