There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

If there exists no possibility of failure then victory is meaningless.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

In America there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

For every failure there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock take a detour.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense every man can be a king and must therefore be treated like a king.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act we're all actors we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

At our best it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year so there are some clunkers.

The most important training though is to experience life as a writer questioning everything inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that all the other things will come if you don't there's no hope for you.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

Once you're in a particular country and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.