Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Make only big mistakes.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

By the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct It.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.