Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Common sense is not so common.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

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

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

God always has patience.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We are wiser than we know.

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

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

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.