The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blam...
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
To Do Today, 1/17/08 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats
