If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I believe only in art and failure.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.