Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean so must I never live my life for itself but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

In the revolt against idealism the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Every secret of a writer's soul every experience of his life every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.