“We ought not to desire the impossible.”

“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”

“Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.”

“The saints that be in Heaven, they will to know nothing but that which our Lord willeth to shew them: and also their charity and their desire is ruled after the will of our Lord: and thus ought we to will, like to them. Then shall we nothing will nor desire but the will of our Lord, as they do: for we are all one in God’s seeing.”

“Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.”

“The destruction was mutual. We went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or impose American will on other people. I don't feel that we ought to apologize or castigate ourselves or to assume the status of culpability.”

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”

“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.”

“Since you cannot live without desires, therefore it is impossible to run away from realisations too.”