Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.