I have a bias. I hate it when famous men and women are remembered only for their achievements without any reference to the dark hours and private pain that made those achievements possible. I wrote this book because I wanted people with failures in their lives to know that those failures are never final and that suffering often becomes the soil from which greatness springs. I believe the Winston Churchill story captures these truths powerfully, offering all of us the inspiration to live meaningful lives on the other side of painful seasons.