Did you try and fail today, or did you fail to try.

Are you climbing a mountain, or digging a hole.

There is no time...but the present.

When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.

It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision that turned one school of art into another was a result of endless failure.

You can't win them all -- but you can try.