"God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"Anatomy is destiny"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance if the circumstances around them suck they change them"

"So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom"

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"