Most of us are better when things go better.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will