"success is a matter of adjustment. if you achieve waht you set out to achieve, you will be successful--if the goal had value from the start.

if you fall short of a goal, but realise along the way that there are other valuable goals and are flexible enoguh to shift to better ones, you will alos be successful.

if the values you cherish have evolved only from the short-term, selfish, the hedonistic, the frivolous, your success will not be genuine.

values that allow and encourage commitment and the desire to contribute to others, produce some enlightenment and ratchet the community one notch higher in quality of life are the ones that will undergird success of the kind you want."

-Letter To A Great Grandson
by hugh downis

like the man you sit next to on the morning train;
and whom you look through like a window-pane