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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.