To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
From age 16 I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
Whatever you do do it with all your might. Work at it early and late in season and out of season not leaving a stone unturned and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.