My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

Every summer’s mine.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

This is not a bad life.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

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.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

‚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.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

OVOXO will always be there.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.