I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through. 1.32K
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. 736
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. 681
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. 725
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. 679
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. 715
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly 719
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. 683
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 681
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. 599
