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.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.