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.

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

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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.

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.

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

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

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.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

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.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

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

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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

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

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

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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

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.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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.

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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.