In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience having gone through persona changes like that that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness it's a strength.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.