American historian and writer James Truslow Adams is thought to be the man responsible for coining the phrase, 'American Dream'. He served to the aid of President Woodrow Wilson and was assigned with preparations and become part of the US Delegation for the Paris Peace Conference of 1918.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

I must learn from yesterday so that I may not make the same mistake twice. A simpler phrase to be said then done, but nonetheless, something to look forward to. I must have been given this new knowledge for a reason.