We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

War is what happens when language fails.

In war when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance he no longer deserves victory.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

One fails forward toward success.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails they try to poison you. If this fails too the finish by loading honors on your head.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Patriotism in America as I understand it is a matter of suffering when the country fails to live up to its promises or actively betrays them.