When you're successful you naturally feel more at home.

Henry James, Portrait Of A Lady (1881)

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. to suffer fifty years of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still - that's how you build a future.

Arthur Miller, Death of A Salesman (1949)

Und alle unsere Geistesgaben kommen gar nicht mehr zum Tragen / Weil wir schon seit jungen Tagen so gar keinen Ehrgeiz haben / Unsere Haut zu Markt zu tragen.

Britta, "Wer wird Millionär?" (2006)

Ein fairer Preis, aber kein männlicher Preis. Fairness macht einen Mann nicht stolz. Bringt Fairness Erfolg? Bringt sie einem den Neid der Männer und die Liebe der Frauen? Nein, Sir, nein. Fairness ist was für Jungen und Junggesellen.

William Nicholson, Das Lied des Feuers (2002)

These things we do to keep the flame burnin and write our fires in the sky. Another day to see the wheel turnin, another avenue to try.

Bonnie Raitt/Paul Brady, Luck of the Draw (1991)

Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston