Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.