Sometimes you had to let a person stumble, let 'em fall flat out—no matter how much it hurt to see—before they could come to grips with how bad off they were. Because until a person realized that, there wasn't much helping them.

There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.