Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power

Now comes the mystery. (His last words)