Pastoral Resources

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.