An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

The world is too violent right now.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Friends are thieves of time.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

My friends are my estate.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

Laws are silent in time of war.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

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

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

War is a contagion.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

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