“The first lesson I would learn about love is that it is filled with disappointment. The second thing I would learn is that the search for a cure almost invariably ends up being self-destructive.”
“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”
“...Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.”
“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.”
“That's what I learned when my last Russian winter thawed. The lesson wasn't about Russia. It never is, I don't think, when a relationship ends. It isn't your lover that you learn about. You learn about yourself.”
“Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.”