I am confident, from my own experience, that every time you attempt to lend a hand, or to right a wrong, or to speak up, you will feel better—about the world and about yourself. When you act, you may make a mistake; when you speak, you may say the wrong thing. But it is much better to fail while daring greatly than to be a bystander, to borrow a line from Teddy Roosevelt. If you fail, often the worst thing that can happen is that you will have a funny story to tell. I have never heard a single funny story about failing to try.

