We can't have a failure in Iraq but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are it's going to become I think a failure in and of itself.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so you may change the culture and just possibly for a moment change life itself.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

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

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy rather which we have only to be still to experience.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact till it does that it hardly is experience.