“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that will never play.”

“Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.”

“But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.”

“Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.”

“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we read, and shows us that the things which the writer commends to us were never worth very much; yet I might equally well have come to the opposite conclusion, that reading teaches us to place a higher value on life, a value which we did not know how to appreciate, and the true extent of which we come to realize only through the book.”

“Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?”