wisdom

"Success equals goals; all else is commentary."

"When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong."

"Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know..."

"Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts."

"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

"Reading makes you ready for the world. A man who doesn’t read is a man who is easily deceived. You must find that man and make him sign a contract, and you must do it before Satan does. Trust me, the profits are HUGE!"

"When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way."

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."

"Superficiality is the curse of the modern world."

"A path is made by walking on it."

"If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first."

"Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it."

"Purity of heart is what enables us to see."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"The most complicated skill is to be simple."

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"

"In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier."

"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."