wisdom

"The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is."

"To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse."

"Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers."

"Silence does not always mark wisdom."

"I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut."

"Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

"If you rest, you rust."

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

"Opportunity is not your opponent—it is your ally, but it’s hard to see that because opportunity is often camouflaged and hidden among danger and chaos."

"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides."

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

"Once a wolf, always a wolf."

"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."

"We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own."

"I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see."

"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"

"Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence."

"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."

"He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try."