“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”

“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”

“For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.”

“At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.”

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

“You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.”

“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”

“It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

“Born down in a dead man's town,
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much,
Till you spend half your life just covering up.”