"Failure is the mechanism of learning."

“Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner”

“We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.”

“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”

“He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “Wonderstruck”, p.221, Scholastic

“A dead man cannot bite.”

“In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.”

Source : "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

“No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.”

“I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.”

Source : "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.