"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two." ― John Cheever Topic(s): Strength More From John Cheever "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty." "Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time." "Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two." More In Strength "Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength."― Amanda Burton "My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there."― Ariel Sharon "If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."― Ben Elton