We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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.

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

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.