It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

经验能买来昂贵的智慧。

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.

重要的是，我们即将进入千禧年，因为我所经历的，仅仅是作为数十亿人中的一个，就是加速的感觉。我通过与他人的接触体会到了这一点。

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

根据我们的经验，政治领导人并不总是言出必行。

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

通过意识到每一个时刻、每一个精神过程和每一次呼吸的真正价值，我们有可能在此生体验一次觉醒。

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

奇怪的是，一颗心要经过多少次破碎，岁月才会使它变得明智。

It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.

当你结婚后，你的父母对你做的那些事，你把你的头六个生日抛诸脑后，想要消除它们是非常困难和昂贵的。

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

要想明白为什么有些关系能长久而有些却不能，需要很多生活经验。但我们不必等到危机来临，才对一段特殊关系的未来有所了解。我们在每一件小事中的行为都告诉我们很多。

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

对一个孩子来说，这是一次很棒的经历，因为那是一群孩子在海盗船和滑水道上玩耍，所以现在回想起来，那是我童年最快乐的经历。

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

这是一次披头士巡演的经历。它们不是很好。歌唱得很好，但演奏得有点差。

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

与其说这是一件文学作品，不如说这是一种语言和哲学上的专注……发现你可以在多大程度上使用语言来创造即时的、基本的体验。

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.

这很自然——我第一天到片场时真的很紧张，但我喜欢整个过程。

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

这是我活着的时候经历过的离炼狱最近的一次。

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

这是双向的:有些悲剧的受害者来找我，他们经历了巨大的悲痛，无法和解。同样，我也无法改变那些犯下罪行的人或追随他们的傻瓜的心态。

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

它总是一种活生生的体验——发生在你周围的任何事情。把它谱成一首歌很容易。

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

我不得不说，对于一个政治家来说，在沉默中被倾听总是一种有趣的经历。