Words of Wisdom

I just recently finished a lovely book called Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo and at the end of the book there is a little section where he answers a few questions about the book, his life and his beliefs. There is one section that resonated a lot of truth within, especially in my current state of living without Spock in his physical form:

"If you are young, beautiful, strong and talented and live long enough, all of that will be taken away from you. If you are tremendously rich, you cant carry your wealth across the threshold of death. Those are facts, not tenets of any religion.

For all but the most conceited or desperately insecure, it seems that you get wiser as you age, and that wisdom and humility go hand in hand. I know it isn't that simple, and I know some older people are far from humble. But it seems to me that life is a kind of boot camp, designed to break you down and build you up in a different way - if you let it. So you lose your ability to sprint a hundred yards, but maybe you gain something more important in the process. "