Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenge...
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
