Michael Lewis Quotes

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And if that doesn't work out for you, Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.

If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

We can always begin again.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.