"What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure."

    This is a quote from J.K Rowling's speech, "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination." She made it to Harvard's 2004 graduating class.
     It struck a chord within me as I read, and I consider it quite interesting.

          "So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure
           meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself
           that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy
           into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

 Click here to view the full artcle.