It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.
I know I've made mistakes, and sometimes I've talked about things too openly or directly. That wasn't good, and I've learned from that.
Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.
It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan genocide erupted in 1994 and the Darfur genocide began in 2003, that the 'international community' had learned nothing since the Holocaust.
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
We will never forget the lessons that we learned as a result of San Bruno. It's really caused us to focus on safety with a laser-like sort of manner. There's always more work to be done.
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
Regrets don't help anything.
When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.
Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.
I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.
