Wisdom Quotes

"Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls." "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today..." "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." "The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them." "I thought that words and books and pens are more powerful than guns." "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed" "Evil knows of the good, but good does not know of evil" "All human errors stem from impatience " "The truth is, you cannot run from your past." "I don't know the secret to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" "Understanding and Love are not two things, but just one" "In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears." "Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." "Don't make much ado about nothing."