Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Things move on quickly in football. You win the FA Cup: 'So?' We won the league the next year: 'So what? Go out and win it again.'

Most schools don't do this job well at all. Instead, most children feel failure when they go to class. They could also hire athletics to do the job. For a few, sports do the job well. But for the less gifted, athletics makes students feel failure, too. So they hire electronic games to feel successful. And yet for many, even such games yield failure. So they hire friends who have feelings of failure, too—and engage in drugs and other things to feel successful.

He has gone to the demnition bowwows.

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

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.