The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone.
You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients, or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work, but of the two, obsessing about your customers will take you further.
"The pursuit of excellence is a never-ending journey."
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
"A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers."
All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.