An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

A prudent question is one - half of wisdom.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

When in doubt, don't.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.