My High School French teacher asked for a volunteer to write a daily saying up on the board to motivate the students. I volunteered and this is how the book was started. After about a week I became tired of looking up quotes and started making up my own. I stopped writing them up on the board when the teacher started making me write them in French, but I still continued to write them down in my notebook. After ten years and several very boreing English classes in college I have a finished project.