Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.