Pastoral Resources

I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend.

Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.