I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Big results require big ambitions.

I like pushing boundaries.

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.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

You can be passionate about anything.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

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

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

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

Football is unconditional love.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.