“The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our successes and failures.”

“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

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

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

“Often, moreover, it is… that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

“Learning from experience, however, can be complicated. It can be much more difficult to learn from success than from failure. If we fail, we think carefully about the precise cause. Success can indiscriminately reinforce all our prior actions.”

“Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.”

“Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?”

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”