“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”

“Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed”

“Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”