In order to lead a country or a company you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody green economy regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us if we take them tenderly and truly.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
He who hath many friends hath none.
The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.