Many people shun failure without realizing that it is the path to success. In the early eighties, my friend Rick Fragaszy and I had season tickets to the SDSU Aztec basketball games. As with all spectator sports, Aztecs in particular, we had to sit through many mediocre games, but every ten games or so, an excellent game made it all worth it. It did not escape my attention at that time that if we had not had season tickets, we probably would have missed the good games altogether. Thus, the moral of the story: You have to experience a lot of failures before you can enjoy one success. Failure defines success; this is the true meaning of success.

Vitraux at Mezquita, Cordoba, Spain.