"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."
"I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow."
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks."
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew."
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."
"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"