It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don't allow for mistakes.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.