“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than being a failure. It's just more comfortable. And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.”

“The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.”

“We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.”

“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”

“Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.”

“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”