We ought not to desire the impossible.[Non si debbe desiderare lo impossibile.]
My paramount desire today, which guides me in everything I do, is an ambition to harness the forces of nature for the service of mankind.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
You call it hope – that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
We can love those we hate more easily than those who love us more than we want them to.[Nous sommes plus près d’aimer ceux qui nous haïssent que ceux qui nous aiment plus que nous ne voulons.]
There is nothing that imprints a thing so vividly on our memory as the desire to forget it.[Il n’est rien qui imprime si viuement quelque chose en nostre souuenance, que le desir de l’oublier.]
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
The state has its root in Time: it will have its culmination in Time.[Staten har sin rod i tiden; den vil faa sin top i tiden.]
The imperfection in everything human is that its aspirations are achieved only by way of their opposites.
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar requires sorest need.
