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

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.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.

For me its the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato I dont know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

I am hard-core middle class.

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I spend a lot of my time on the phone, pestering people. 'What's new in your lab? Can I come visit your lab? When can I come visit your lab?' I'm basically a professional pesterer.

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.