I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.