Every tear is a waterfall.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes a master."

The idea is to create a landscape that you can move through.

It’s not how you fall, it’s how you get back up.