You have to be fearless in your pursuit of storytelling.
Stay hungry, stay foolish, but also stay focused.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.   
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."