The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
Show business is my life.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
The moment of change is the only poem.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.