I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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.

Not all those who wander are lost.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

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.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.