At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs.
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.
My team good, we don’t really need a mascot.
Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes. Being attentive to the needs of others might not be the point of life, but it is the work of life. It can be messy, and painful, and almost impossibly difficult. But it is not something we give. It is what we get in exchange for having to die.
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.
Thats all I need. To find a soul mate to share my life with. To have a love so epic it will never die.
I need to rein myself in sometimes.
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
My message is, if you need help, ask for it.
The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.
Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.
You need the willingness to fail all the time.
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities, the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants.