Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Poor people have to pay high rents to marriage halls for conducting functions like wedding. Therefore, to benefit them, I have directed constructing 'Amma Marriage Halls.'

In terms of wedding gifts, I like to buy people experiences.

I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan their wedding or stag night. They say, 'Can you just come up with six tasks for us on our hen night?'

Planning my wedding and stuff, there's going to be reasons why people weren't there and nobody knows about why they're not going to be at my wedding.

God forbid I do the 'Electric Slide' at a wedding or something. People would lose their minds.

Having been married and having stood up in front of people and had my own wedding, I understand the importance of that ceremony and the choice that you're making to spend your life with somebody and tell everybody in your life why.