“Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?”
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
“One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.”
“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.”
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”
“No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.”