Ambition is the golden mean between sloth and greed.

Ambition is overrated — Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.

Ambition is like hunger : it obeys no law but its appetite.

Ambition is most aroused by the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Commitment is requisite to real living — If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Commitment is at the heart of personhood. An uncommitted person is not person at all.

Commitment is the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Contract is an agreement made up of big words and little type.

A Contract is a deceptive document — The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

A Contract is worthless if not written — a verbal contract is not worth the paper it's printed on.

A Contract is a document written by lawyers for lawyers in order to make people immediately realise that they cannot do without lawyers.

A Deadline is essential to fulfilling goals — a goal without a deadline is just a dream.

The Deadline is the terrible anvil on which one forges one's style.

The Deadline is best loved for the wooshing noise it makes as it goes by.

The Deadline is motivating — a deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.