I had no expectations about fatherhood really but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job she wasn't kidding.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited thankfully.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child forget it.

I find by experience that the mind and the body are more than married for they are most intimately united and when one suffers the other sympathizes.

Parents of recovered children and I've met hundreds all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

We are different in essence from other men. If you want to win something run 100 meters. If you want to experience something run a marathon.

If you do build a great experience customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces but which all experience refutes.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.

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

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?

I didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history) men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

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

Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.

Never never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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.