Alexandra Fuller Quotes

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me," as much as it's like, "I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid."

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.