The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you until your life has illustrated it.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

I hate when my foot falls asleep during the day because I know its going to be up all night.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which, once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Everything that I loved was taken away from me and I did not die.