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

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.

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.

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

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.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

I try not to tweet too much; I'm a really sporadic tweeter. I will tweet nonstop for, like, 3 days, and then I won't for a month. I don't make it priority at all; if I feel like doing it, I do it, and if not, then I don't care.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

The way we divorce in this country hurts people on the deepest level. The ripple effect and resonance of it is remarkable, vast - vast - and if I ever went into Parliament, I would become very involved in that.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

I'm delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word 'brain,' no one was interested. Now, nearly every magazine on the planet is featuring the brain. One of my original goals, on one level, was to make myself unnecessary.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.