My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

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.

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.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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

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

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

The only source of knowledge is experience.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

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.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

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

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

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

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.