If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.