Ambition

By all means, turn me into a child star. Perhaps I can move to Californiay and wrangle me a three-way with the Olsen twins.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.