William Glasser Quotes

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

My definition of success is control.

I love dancing. It's one of my favorite things in the whole world.

Power is not happiness.

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted. We all want to feel content. And life is hard.

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

I've always, always loved dancing.

I love this game. I've been playing this game all my life. It's brought me a lot. I have fun with it.

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

I think that success is having fun.

I just love dancing.