The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The only information we can legitimately derive from aesthetic and moral experiences is information about our own mental and physical make-up.
The physicality of the material is its meaning.
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.