And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.