“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”

“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”

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

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

“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”

“Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”