I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

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 don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

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.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

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

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

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from 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.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Losing is tough.

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.