Casey Stengel Quotes

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I learned from my past.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

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

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.