The only risk of failure is promotion.
Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.
Home is pretty utopian.
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.