Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions. read more
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. read more
- Haruki MurakamiTo smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work. read more
- Mignon McLaughlinFootprints, that perhaps another, Travelling o"er life"s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. read more
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. read more
- Francis BaconGreat hypocrite are the real atheists. read more
- Francis BaconImportant families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. read more
- Francis BaconIt will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to extend their own power in their native country, a vulgar and degenerate kind. The second is of those who labor to extend the power and dominion of their country among men. This certainly has more dignity, though not less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to establish and extend the power and dominion of the human race itself over the universe, his ambition (if ambition it can be called) is without doubt both a more wholesome and a more noble thing than the other two. read more
- Francis BaconIf you can talk about it, why paint it? read more
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