Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

If something you did causes failure, shouldn't the exact opposite of what you did bring success?

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what gets passed along to her children is something far more intimate and mysterious than anything contained therein. What gets passed along is her character, and it enters into her kids as surely and as inexorably as water flows from a fuller vessel into a less-full one.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.