We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
