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

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience"

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"