Pastoral Resources

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

True friends stab you in the front.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.