When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition

Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.