A amizade é semelhante a um bom café; uma vez frio, não se aquece sem perder bastante do primeiro sabor.

A amizade é um amor que nunca morre.

Para conseguir a amizade de uma pessoa digna é preciso desenvolvermos em nós mesmos as qualidades que naquela admiramos.

A amizade desenvolve a felicidade e reduz o sofrimento, duplicando a nossa alegria e dividindo a nossa dor.

A verdadeira amizade é aquela que nos permite falar, ao amigo, de todos os seus defeitos e de todas as nossas qualidades.

A amizade é uma predisposição recíproca que torna dois seres igualmente ciosos da felicidade um do outro.

A amizade é um meio de nos isolarmos da humanidade cultivando algumas pessoas.

A amizade duplica as alegrias e divide as tristezas.

A melhor maneira de começar uma amizade é com uma boa gargalhada. De terminar com ela, também.

Não é amigo aquele que alardeia a amizade: é traficante; a amizade sente-se, não se diz...

A amizade é o conforto indescritível de nos sentirmos seguros com uma pessoa, sem ser preciso pesar o que se pensa, nem medir o que se diz.

Quando defendemos os nossos amigos, justificamos a nossa amizade.

O amor pode morrer na verdade, a amizade na mentira.

A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza – é isso que a distingue do amor.

Quem cedo e bem aprende, tarde ou nunca esquece. Quem negligencia as manifestações de amizade, acaba por perder esse sentimento.

A felicidade de um amigo deleita-nos. Enriquece-nos. Não nos tira nada. Caso a amizade sofra com isso, é porque não existe.

Como as plantas, a amizade não deve ser muito nem pouco regada.

Não há solidão mais triste do que a do homem sem amizades. A falta de amigos faz com que o mundo pareça um deserto.

As palavras de amizade e conforto podem ser curtas e sucintas, mas o seu eco é infindável.

A glória da amizade não é a mão estendida, nem o sorriso carinhoso, nem mesmo a delícia da companhia. É a inspiração espiritual que vem quando você descobre que alguém acredita e confia em você.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

The novelty of corsets and dresses and hats very soon wears off.

Love has many faces.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

A community is a group of people who have come together and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life and I dont mean money.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

I definitely don't have any desire to have children.

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.