There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I believe only in art and failure.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.