As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.
One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.
If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. I'm just not that girl, I don't go to clubs. I'm a pretty normal girl.
I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.
The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.
It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying 'This is how you live your life.'
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.
