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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

I think, most of us, when we look back over our lives, see perhaps moments when everything was dangerous and precarious. We're making all these mistakes, and yet somehow we make it through. It's the making it through that that interests me. To go through the valley of trouble and come out the other side. That's what we all have to do.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.