We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

War is what happens when language fails.

In war when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance he no longer deserves victory.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

One fails forward toward success.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails they try to poison you. If this fails too the finish by loading honors on your head.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Patriotism in America as I understand it is a matter of suffering when the country fails to live up to its promises or actively betrays them.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

When music fails to agree to the ear to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses then it has missed the point.

As one gets older it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

When a marriage culture fails sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions it is not love but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

In the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

In the transmission of human culture people always attempt to replicate to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning not DNA.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.