If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

—Brendan Francis

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

—Brendan Francis

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

—Brendan Francis

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

—Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

—Aristotle

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

—Aristotle

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

—Arab Proverb

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

—Alexander Graham Bell