Pastoral Resources

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

I have a lot of male friends.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.