"Failure is a great teacher and, if..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey

“My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.”

“I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.”

“Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.”

“If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.”

“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”

“The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.”

“The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.”

“The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.”

“In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.”