“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”

“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”

“When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.”

“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.”

“When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.”

“And I also know that loving someone—even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences—is never the wrong thing to do.”

“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”

“Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love…”

“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”