Quotes about Experience

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Why I Wrote Redeeming Love Many born-again Christians talk about a single conversion experience that changed their lives forever. They can tell you the day and the hour they made their decision to live for the Lord. I can't do that.

I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.