India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.