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"If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness."

"What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment."

"If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair."

"In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."

"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."

"Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse."

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."

"I owe everything to the army."

"I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night."

"At my age, the radiation will probably do me good."

"You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag."

"I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have."

"What I like doing most is making children laugh."

"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."