Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.