It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we're got on damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.

I'm sort of like a Phoenix; I kind of rise from my ashes fairly quickly.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

How can you rise, if you have not burned