Where do nightmares come from? From our failure to live the life we love.

Better failure on one's own terms than success on someone else's.

Better to fail on your own terms than succeed on someone else's.

Failure only crushes those who fear it.

The strength of a body can be gauged by how quickly it recovers from a fall.

Where psychology fails is in trying to give plausibility and coherence to actions that have none.

We let life down: it doesn't let us down.

Societies fail their members, and not the other way around. Society is the real failure.

Failure is the belief in failure.