In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.