Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

Need teaches a plan.

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

We all need to think we belong to other people.

Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need.

The greatest need of youth is money; of middle age is time, of old age is energy.

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

Four be the things I'd be better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.