Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

With failure you just try again.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Ambitious failure magnificent failure is a very good thing.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour not just writing.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

There would seem to be a limit even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure a mere experimentation.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.