The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. – Anna Garlin Spencer

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. – Amos Bronson Alcott

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. – Bodhidharma