Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.
Robert A. HeinleinMen rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert A. HeinleinThe Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.
Robert A. HeinleinThe country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.
Robert A. Heinlein