We can never learn too much of His will towards us too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady and was of course a complete failure.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it it's doomed to failure.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.