Success in life means doing that thing than which nothing else is more dear to you.
"In the end, we are all just stories. What matters is how well we tell them."
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.