Source: The Mastery of Love (1999), Ch.4 - p.71
“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 52
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“Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.”
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)

“Oh! Don't you throw my love away,
I need your loving, I need your loving…”
Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

“Do you know what I really need?
I need love love love love love, yeah!”
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 64