Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

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

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

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

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

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 the sound a typewriter makes.

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.

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.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

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

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

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

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

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

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

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.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.