"**To whom much is given**, the lesson from the parable goes, much **is expected**. "That doesn’t mean money and success, necessarily. “**I can very well understand how you feel that to be anything less than the greatest in your line would be failure**,” Uncle Will wrote to [[Walker Percy]] in that letter. “I used to think the same way about poetry,” he explained of his own writing. “**But now I do not regret having written it, although what I wrote does not rank with the greatest and may well be forgotten shortly. If I had thought this would be its fate, I would not have written, but now I am glad I did. It was the best I could give and if it is not the best somebody else could give, that is not my concern**.” "**Do your best. Become what you can be. You owe the world that much**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[free-will]], [[responsibility]], [[character]], [[discipline]], [[personal-values]], [[expertise]] **Source** -- [[202409180127 - B - Right Thing, Right Now]]