I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

To help yourself you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake learn from it pick yourself up and move on.

A failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I'm selfish impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes I'm out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Sometimes when you innovate you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

In the West you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone and if you make a mistake it's your mistake. If you hit a home run it's your home run.

We gave up some of our country to the white men thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.