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.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

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.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

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

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

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

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

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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.

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.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

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.

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

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

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

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

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.