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

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.

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.

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.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

A lot of DJs dont realize theyre here today and gone tomorrow. Theyre literally taking jets to every show. Its crazy how much money theyre spending.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

Even very little things can change your destiny and throw you to a different path, to a different fate; you must never forget that even very little things have great powers!

If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.

All the Men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them.

I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

I don't really sell many records.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

I try to tell the truth.