There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.
See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Action is the antidote to despair.
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
I don't believe in make-or-break moments in your life. If you screw something up, it can knock you down, but that only means you'll be better when you get back to where you were before.
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Failure is always an option.
When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.
He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through
Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.
Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.
In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.
What's done can't be undone.
I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.
