Pastoral Resources

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.