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 suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‚Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?‘

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

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

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

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

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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

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.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

I’ll die a crazy old man!