No person I have ever met not even the most righteous or pure of heart has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us as a society in that clearness which it might have been had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

Reason is our soul's left hand faith her right.

When I got Jacob's Latter I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be 'out of there.'

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.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

The fear of failure is so great it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher if you only get three things right out of 10 you're considered a failure.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.