The key to long-term success is creating value for others—by focusing on their needs, desires, and objectives.

I have no desire to keep playing international Test cricket, and not a day has gone by that I’ve regretted retiring.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

I always believe and would also like to tell you that the actual joy of the mysteries is always a certainty, the one which truly always comes or is derived from its actual contemplation.

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong – to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in the realm of thought. And you are mad cosmos-makers. Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live, and your thinking has no place in the real world except in so far as it is phenomena of mental aberration.

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer

Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.

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

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Joy runs deeper than despair.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don’t, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

We need more of the office desk and less of the show window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war.

I hope, some day or another, we shall become a storehouse and granary for the world.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

One, who abandons all desires, is free from pride and selfishness and behaves as one apart, finds peace.

Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. He who is discontented, however much he possesses, becomes a slave to his desires.

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since “the rest of your life” won’t last forever.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.