When professors want your opinion, they'll give it to you.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
It's not that I'm afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
You can't always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes you'll find what you need.
If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good.
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The way I see it, if you want rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.