It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Ben Stein, (Nov 25 1944-____), US actor, author, game show host; He is best known as Mr. Cantwell, the science teacher, on The Wonder Years; was also MC for Win Ben Stein's Money.