Not all of us, Goldstone obviously never has.
Funnily enough, I find that those people who have made mistakes and are far more interesting than crashing bores who think that we should live life without attempting anything incase we fail. I know who I would rather spend time with.
No one is a complete waste of time, your post says much about you and is disingenious to say the least I am sure she meant a great deal to a number of people.
Your post is the classic 'if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all"...