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I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I want to be an integrated woman.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

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.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.