Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Law, without force, is impotent.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.