“If you throw stones on my way to stumble and I fall, you try to put extra care when passing my way, lest you stumble and fall.”
“Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.You are the way and the wayfarers.And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.”
“And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.”
“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
“Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?”
“The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.”