Pastoral Resources

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

I usually only play with very close friends.

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Friends are thieves of time.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.