Talk doesn’t cook rice.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.