"The story is more important to me than the part."

"A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be."

"I wish I was somebody else except me."

"People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable."

"If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich."

"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."

"I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist."

"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

"The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself."

"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."

"My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men"

"Desire is the very essence of man"

"I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel."

"While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."

"I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down."

"There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say."

"She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that."

"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect."