Experience teaches only the teachable.

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Impossible is for the unwilling.

Stay foolish to stay sane.

I do not fear the unknown, I fear that what I do know will never take me anywhere.

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong.

Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterward.

Experience is a dim lamp which only lights the one who bears it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience. There is no other way to know.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us if we get brightened by it— not ground.

If you devote yourself entirely to a noble pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.