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The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?