"Go back far enough in any great man's life, and you will eventually get to the stuff he did or said before he was great or even a man ... Trying to define a person's current self by their past self is the worst kind of gotcha. Our mistakes from the past are just that—mistakes, and most of the time it was necessary to make them in order to become the wiser person we then became ... Yes, if only hindsight could come without having to mess up first. And believe me, I have the platform shoes to prove that one."- Bill Maher [born 1956], New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer, p. 170
