“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”

“If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.”

“People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”

“On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.”

“Many great failures and many great successes are due to chance and not to human folly or ingenuity.”

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”