Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it’s doomed to failure.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.