I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Letterman is very intimidating because he's so funny, so you have to be really prepared. Also, he's a little squeamish about certain things, so you have to always be on guard to please him.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.

Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.