"At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise."

"Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval."

"Books are a stairway to knowledge; experience is a highway to understanding; together they are an elevator to enlightenment."

"Life is a thorough university; pain and hardship are its distinguished professors."

"There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience."

"The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on."

"The mind is its thoughts, the heart is its desires, and the soul is its experiences."

"Lessons, not blood, pour out of our deepest wounds."

"Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences."

"The greater your mind the greater your words. The greater your heart the greater your deeds. The greater your soul the greater your experiences."