Howard Jacobson Quotes

I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

I'm a mother now and married, and knowing what I know now, I would definitely have gone about things quite differently.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I learned from my past.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Love has more depth as you get older.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.