The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
Joan Rivers

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
John Updike

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard M. Nixon

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Gerald R. Ford

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Albert Schweitzer

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
Carter G. Woodson

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
Silvio Berlusconi

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson