I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.