wisdom

"With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying."

"You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."

"After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life."

"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever."

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

"If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely."

"Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise."

"When you make a choice, you change the future."

"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you."

"You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can."

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."

"I wouldn’t feel great if you left me alone, but I wouldn’t feel bad either. I’d feel good, like I always do, which has nothing to do with you, even if you’ll have nothing to do with me."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."

"Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred."