“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.