“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Beauty without expression is boring.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

The best job a man could have would be a chef. They’d understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

I love playing a smart, ambitious, talented woman. Who doesn’t? That’s really fun for me.