"The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better."
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"There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists."
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"Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want."
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"We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration."
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"I want to be just a pure spiritual leader."
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"I really do not want to carry some kind of party function."
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"One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists."
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"Arouse in the other person an eager want."
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"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."
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"He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand."
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"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."
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"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation."
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"Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that."
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"A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want"
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"So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living."
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"I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer."
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"I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction."
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"If you want to predict the future create it."
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"Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across.""
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"My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down."
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