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

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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.

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

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

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.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

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.

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

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.

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

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

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

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Where thou art, that is home.

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.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

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

I’m more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

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.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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

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

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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.

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

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

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.