A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Bring them on.

OVOXO will always be there.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I supported Donald Trump.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I look after people.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.