“Democracy is only as moral and just as those in power, and only as wise as the citizens who elect them.”

“What I currently have are the resources that allow me to obtain what I don’t. Therefore, to forget what I ‘do have’ in the pursuit of what I ‘don’t’ is to insure that whatever I don’t have, I won’t have.”

“Oh that we might have the wisdom to stop, lean down and pick up the scattering of things that we’ve so thoughtlessly discarded along the way. For if we were to do so, we would suddenly find ourselves holding the very treasures that we’d been looking for all along.”

“Be Wise about Whom you Confide In.”

“Let me live for eternity as a friendly ever-evolving elder brother of humanity, not as the rugged, barbarian, uncivilized and unchanging ideology.”

“To visualize the future – the vast ocean of possibilities, you must first learn to distinguish between knowledge and illusion of knowledge.”

“Then the bells of the Cathedral began to ring, a slow, steady, comforting sound, and she found herself thinking back to that moment when the dream of the tiny white bird began to merge with the dream of her life and how very unaware she had been, it had been hidden from her view, this beginning, as so many things are when we are young.”

“Through adversity comes bitterness or wisdom.”

“The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it.”

“All great thinkers…. can be wipeout by constant trauma. (It’s a fun event… every person who thinks is free to say what he desires… can come and join…)”

“The fool questions if the world is real; the wise question if their thoughts are.”

“Wisdom, real wisdom, is not making life any harder than it has to be.”

“The question is not how many years I’ve lived. The question is how I lived those many years.”

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”

“Doing something we do not find difficult or challenging rarely grows us.”