“Which is to say, boys, that I saw our struggles and dreams all tangled up in the same failure, and that failure was called joy.”
“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”
“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
“What the world calls failure, I call learning.”
“He was forever dwelling on his failures. He held them up to the light and examined them in minute detail, like necklaces that had tangled in a drawer.”