“In practical administration, experience is everything.”

“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.”

“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”

“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced”

“Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.”

“We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.”

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

“And if the experience of natural science is any guide, then as the science of administration advances, we may reasonably expect it to take on an increasingly deterministic character. As research, scientific societies, and the exchanges of knowledge and hypotheses by natural scientists have advanced the exactness of knowledge in the domain of natural science, so we may expect research, administrative societies, and the exchanges among administrators to advance the exactness of knowledge in the domain of administration.”

“Everything in your career is a stepping stone because it’s an experience, and experience is the biggest thing.”

“Parents always live a less pure life than their children, because they condone everything they do. The ability to condone everything in oneself but practically nothing in one's children is the boon that "experience" bestows on humanity. What parents call experience is really nothing but attempts, successful to the point of sheer cynicism, to belie everything which they found pure, true and right when they were young. They themselves don't notice the awful cynicism behind this incessant talk of "experience" being the highest aim in life: they only notice "inexperience" in their children, that is, the form of inexperience called purity and integrity, and then they get annoyed.”