Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
"Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order."
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge.