By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

I feel in the end as if everything I've done has been a failure.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me divorce symbolized failure.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent but I did know I had a fear of failure and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

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

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work you're a failure. And if it does work you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I may be a successful football player but I feel like such a failure.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.