The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer. ' He is simply an 'artist. ' All of life will be open to him.
You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.
Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.
People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
The good news is that Jesus is praying for us. The bad news is that we are going to need it!
I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.
In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.
I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.
Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.
I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience. . . . But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience. . . . The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on.
I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.
I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.