“It’s too late. He’s already learned how not to drown.”

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

“First of all, when you enter a conservatory, it’s already too late. The kind of connection that has to be made with an instrument, be it a piano, strings, a wind instrument, it really has to start much younger – five, six, seven - eight years-old is already getting late. The instrument must really become an extension of yourself. That neuromuscular connection between intention and realization is something that really has to be started very young. And the years between nine or ten and twenty, that’s when one should learn the whole repertoire.”

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”

“As we have already learned how to sacrifice our own lives, now no one can stop us!”

“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”