"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

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

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree"

"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"

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

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"