Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.
Reading is not optional.
Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.
If you thirst you may drink.
Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.
Better a barefoot than none.
Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right.
Over the long haul, many of those people [in a difficult marriage] will begin to reciprocate, because you are meeting a basic need in their life, the need for love, and they know they don't deserve love many times.
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.
I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.
"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.
When I'm hungry, I need to eat right away.
Education is a basic necessity.
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Food is a common denominator for all people.
Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
