Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

I want, I want.

Poverty wants some things, luxury many things, and avarice all things.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.