I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town it was only busy four and half five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority ' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Even when you have doubts take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country he would have escaped.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it and it teaches you something.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Unless we practice conservation those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery degradation and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star whatever that means you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Life is so fresh life is every day so new if we are fighting only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure failure in your endeavor to do your best.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I've had a lot of success I've had failures so I learn from the failure.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again in sickness and in health in success and in failure with anticipation and with dread.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration of feudalism and tribalism.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much you feel so guilty.