What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.