Perfect closes the door. It asserts that we're done, that this is the best we can do. Worse, perfect forbids us to try. To seek perfection and not reach it is a failure.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.