The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

All I can say is that he never done nothin like this before.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

If you're riding a dead horse… dismount.

Rightly or wrongly, I want you to spend your life making music where the angels sing along. Being a reflection. I think that'd be a life well spent. I failed to say that before now, and for that I'm sorry. If I may offer one excuse - I've never raised a son before. Please allow a few mistakes. I'm figuring this out as we go.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

There were periods when I was first-choice keeper and was starting to consolidate my position when out of the blue I got injured. It happened a few times and it really unsettled me.