The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
The writer must be a person who is willing to take risks.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.