Necessary Quotes

I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

I feel like when you say ‘activist,’ you have to have so much clarity, and I don’t always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I’m trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.

Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.

Innovation is no longer optional, its necessary.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

But real life doesn’t travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn’t necessarily have that ‘all lived happily ever after’ bit. You have to work on where you’re going.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.