Wisdom.

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

“Kiss till the cow comes home.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“Trust is central to an economy that works.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”

“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

“Adults are obsolete children.”

“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”

“People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”

“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”

“Don't be afraid to see what you see.”

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.”

“Trust, but verify.”

“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.”

“To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”

“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”

“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”

“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”