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"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."
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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
"Ambition is greed without makeup."
"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
"In the morning envision victory, at night dream of it, but during the day fight for it."
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