You are wise as well as ...

You are wise as well as short.\
You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
 Nora Roberts

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
 Nora Roberts
Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.
 Nora Roberts
He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.
 Nora Roberts
Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.
 Nora Roberts
My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.
 Nora Roberts