Pastoral Resources

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Prosperity makes few friends.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'