What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority ' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years it's a failure.

I realized that I was afraid to really really try something 100% because I had never reached true failure.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure you learned as I did in art school to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure it's because you've started to think of failure.

I think you have to try and fail because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be a challenge to others.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Failure is authentic and because it's authentic it's real and genuine and because of that it's a pure state of being.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.