Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Johann von Goethe

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Mariano Rivera

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Robert Pattinson

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

Paulo Coelho

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.

Janet Bettag

Clever people study in order to know more. Undeserving people study in order to be more known.

Leo Tolstoy

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.

Andrew Weil

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Boethius