Wisdom Sayings

I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore.

The problem with our country is that there are too many people who think they know everything and too few who actually do.

Reality is not always probable, or necessary.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

The first time I read a book, I cried. The first time I wrote a book, I cried. It's a wonderful feeling.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – Between the Heaves of Storm –

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

I was educated by the fairies.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude, it pounces.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Every man is the son of his own works.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.

I stand for the heart, though I stand alone.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

I am a journalist, not a prophet.