“One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.”
“The only failed book is the one that was never written, out of fear-of-failure.”
“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each one should be”
“One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
“One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.”
“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.”