Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

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

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.