“When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.”
“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
“We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”
“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ”
“The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.”