As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.