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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market and we don't know frankly how it would work under every scenario.

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was and they'll say it was one of the first ones where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together and you had to struggle.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels that it's their experience not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Now having had this experience I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.