If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

Experience has been a stern but an excellent teacher.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Experience is a lesson of the past to lessen the burden of the future.

The future depends on what you do today.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Experience is the comb that nature gives us after we are bald.

We are all rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood.

My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn’t be.

Life isn’t sure, life is scary, it doesn’t mean you stop living it.