“Regardless of how foreboding it might appear, a peak without any altitude is a bump. And how many times have I ambled on top of the latter so I could fool myself into believing that I had ascended the former?”

“Being deemed a fool, even if it is done by a fool, does not hurt, unless you are a fool.”

“I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, And put on Intellect; or my thund’rous hammer shall drive thee To wrath, which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.”

“The mistake was to think that the hawks were flying under their own power, when in fact they were catching the updrafts created by nature’s power. Therefore, to truly rise is not a product of our own brute force wherein we create the power. Rather, it is a seasoned wisdom that knows where to find the power.”

“Even idiots can reach old age.”

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”

“She doesn’t need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That’s just miracle.”

“Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.”

“Money is the root of all evil.’ Then we hear, ‘A fool and his money are soon parted.’ What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn’t it be, ‘A wise man and his money are soon parted’? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won’t tell me how they got it, and I won’t tell them.”

“There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, ” This is new, and therefore better.”

“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”

“Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.”

“Wisdom without God is just an idea that’s not wise enough to understand that it’s just an idea.”