I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town it was only busy four and half five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

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?

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Even when you have doubts take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country he would have escaped.