I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.