To be free is not to have no master, but to choose your own.
So, I'm going to end it there. But what I really want to stress is: by all means, success, yes. But let's accept the strangeness of some of our ideas. Let's probe away at our notions of success. Let's make sure our ideas of success are truly our own.
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.