I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samuel Johnson

Your past does not define your future. Every day is a new opportunity to start fresh and create the life you desire.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Emanuel Swedenborg

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

David Ricardo

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Dickens