“If knowledge is the ammunition of reform, experience is the wick to ignite it.”

“No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they’re hot.”

“No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.”

“Do not underestimate your enemy’s strategy for victory. Observe patiently in silence with the application of experience, knowledge, good judgment and strategize your defense to triumph over your enemies.”

“Cunoștințele sunt cele care se adună în capul nostru fără să ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. Cunoașterea e transformarea unor cunoștințe într-o experiență de viață.”

“Some of our truths are scarier than our horrors.”

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don’t love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

“The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can […] be closed with a shout of recognition.”

“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you’ll be a laughingstock to those who really know.”

“I am a student of life, and don’t want to miss any experience. There’s poetry in this sort of thing, you know–or perhaps you don’t know, but it’s all the same.”

“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.”

“Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.”

“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

“Experience is more important than knowledge.”