“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”

“One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”

“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”

“WEINER: Make no mistake about it. Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. That is why”

“We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.”

“He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.”

“It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.”

“Inflicting pain as retribution for wrongs is a horrible mistake: The person wronged and the person punished are one and the same.”