You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious wit without which great actions are seldom accomplished.

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.