You cannot in human experience rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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 have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

Happiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

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

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.