There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A man's mistakes are his portals of discovery.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.

I am smart.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

If I don't believe it, I don't care.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.

Don’t cry because he left. Smile because he gave you an opportunity to find someone better.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.