Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful it's tough it's buried in our mythic childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites but they both are products of the same process.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons and talents as materials you can mine assay and fabricate for profit and defense.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem with interrelated sections.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The success or failure of a life as far as posterity goes seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.