If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure you've been deprived.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure of disappointment of despair and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing but never - pleasurable.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

When you experience a failure as a leader don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

In tennis it is not the opponent you fear it is the failure itself knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

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

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.