"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

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

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."

"Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"

"I'm not young enough to know everything."

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."