Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Be grateful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

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.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

It is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Those who have received the education and opportunities to develop their skills and passions have an obligation to share their insights, visions, and wisdom in gratitude for what has been given.