You come here with a definition of success, and then you find out that the definition changes.
I am a success not because my wife is still married to me, but because I DBed, (and listen up boneheads : ) STILL DB to this day and always will no matter whom I am with)
Same with Bill.
Same with Mach...
That wisdom and insight is paid for in hard times and overcoming...empathy from having done it and seeing it in others.