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.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

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

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I have no human feelings.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I’m an emotional person.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

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

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

We cannot learn men from books.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

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

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.

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

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

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