His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

We’re news junkies in my house.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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.‘

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Desire is the essence of a man.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.