"I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen."
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"I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine."
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"I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha."
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"I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion."
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"I want to know one thing, what is color?"
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"We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it."
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"If you want change, create the causes."
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"We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human."
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"He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have."
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"It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."
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"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
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"Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is."
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"If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set."
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"I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value."
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"And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants"
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"Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off."
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"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
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"No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs."
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"I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational."
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"I do want to give out a positive message and be successful."
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