When did you get so clever?When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

The failure mode of clever is —asshole.

Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

Stretched and skewedTap of the 8-ball and the cueScratches fall throughThey are the scars of you

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.