He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do.
We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.
I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to rely on our history of victimization as our primary source of power to wield within society.
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Man will ever stand in need of man.
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.
When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.
I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.
The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.
