In life, there are no guarantees, but taking risks is the only way to truly live.

I had a few mistakes, but I’m moving on. To be honest, it just motivates me even more.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need. It performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.