"In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates."

“The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.”

“You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.”

“I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.”

“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”

“You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?”

“If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.”

“The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components - judgment, emotional regulation - do improve with age in most people, consciously or not. Of course there is a subset of people out there who are sitting in their rocking chairs, spewing hate, but my guess is that these people weren't very pleasant to begin with, ... The reality is that the data are fairly convincing that people as they get older become more positive and less self-absorbed.”

“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.”

Source : 1939 Madeline.