If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don’t forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: ‘The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.’
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
If I didn’t swim my best, I’d think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.
I’ve seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it’s a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can’t make it.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.
For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.
Having been bullied growing up, it’s something that’s really near and dear to my heart. You probably won’t have many friends on Snapchat if you’re being a jerk.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
