Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Translation is the art of failure.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Failure is a part of success.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.