It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Success is not in never failing but rising everytime you fall!

Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

There was endless action - not just football but sailboats tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading math and science. We're even trailing France.

Rocket science is tough and rockets have a way of failing.

In both religion and science some people are dishonest exploitative incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.