“We are wiser than we know.”

“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.”

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”

“Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.”

“Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine”

“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.”