Regina Brett Quotes

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

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.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

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.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

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

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

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.

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