Amanda Knox Quotes

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

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.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

Ageing might have its drawbacks but it brings with it hard-won wisdom and a wonderful sense of freedom.