The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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

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

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

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.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

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

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.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I have good days and bad days.

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.

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

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

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.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

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

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

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

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.