Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

In most cases, a year older is a good thing. More wisdom, more experience, and less damns given.

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

All experience is good experience.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

The wisest have the most authority.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.