It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.
I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.
