Pastoral Resources

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.