“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.”

“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”

“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall w...”

“He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.”

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

“I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.”

“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”

“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”

“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”

“...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single grow...”

“If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.”