http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68376.html

Although this episode seems to actually® focus on the definition of life more than the 'measurement of man', your question does seem to focus on a general *living sense more than a gender context.

Perhaps one can be measured by what one chooses (or has fell fated to) as a "pursuit of happiness" as this saying suggests...

"Never criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins".

... implying that there is no single measure.