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Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I like my life. I like my friends. I don't want to go anywhere else.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.