"I have been looking into wisdom for nearly two decades and have come to believe that wisdom is not only one of humanity's highest aspirations, but also our best hope. I firmly believe that this potent and sought-after skill (or, alternatively, an attribute, characteristic, or phenomenon) can help us navigate most of the

Rich is the person who stops long enough to listen to a bird sing in the celebration of spring, peer into the deep blue of a drowsy summer sky, draw in the pungent aroma of fall's leaves, and watch the listless kiss of a winter's snow. For in doing these you have witnessed that which money cannot purchase and man cannot create.

So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.

Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn't need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It's amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn't exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I've done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.

"Feeling guilt dims our light. Instead of dimming our light to make others feel more comfortable, we could just continue to shine and foster the rise of the vibrations of those around us.

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

"Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow up-

Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology-but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked of us.

Luck, I believe, is where preparation meets opportunity.

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and Inspirational to everyone around you.

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

"Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfash-ionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes, you can now enjoy hybrid styles of morality. It's the way of the world-philosophy starting to look more and more like business administration.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

Our moments of Inspirational are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

If the giddiness of life and the pressure of time might make us tumble from our tight line, let us inhale the wisdom of our Inspirational and reshape our "inner void" into an "inner space" and refurbish it with the fundamental, vital particles of our everyday experience. ("One drink after work.")

"Isn't it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment?