Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.

The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life.

The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.

Failure is a social taboo.

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

I couldn't walk up to a woman at a bar and say hello.

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.