Would you rather be the most beautiful person in the world, but no one could see you, or the smartest person in the world but you were so smart everyone thought you were dumb and didn't listen to you?
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel
How can I be king of the world? Because I am king of rubbish. And rubbish is what the world is made of. — Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane