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

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

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

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

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.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Life is anything but predictable.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.

You can’t do something forever.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

Lost time is never found again.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Love is the one wild card.

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

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

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.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

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.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

The truth is lived, not taught.