My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow

Senator Lieberman's selection is a tribute to Al Gore's wisdom and vision and a welcome contrast to the highly partisan, right-wing politics of the Republican ticket, ... Mr. Lieberman has distinguished himself as an independent thinker who's well-respected on both sides of the aisle.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.