It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures . . . that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead. . . to a radically new insight into the mysterious gravity of my existence as an uncertain enterprise and to its transcendental meaning.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of …

People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found the…

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Suc…