friendship

"The key is to practice praying - and to practice praying regularly, privately, sincerely and specifically."

"To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?"

"God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in princ…"

"Solitude has become my companion."

"I totally animal-oriented. I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish -- and I had wallabies at one point."

"In Nigeria I'm not black…We don't do race in Nigeria. We do ethnicity a lot, but not race. My friends here don't really get it. Some of them sound like white Southerners from 1940. They say, 'Why are …"

"It's really dangerous for a guy to go to college these days. He's better off if he doesn't talk to any women when he gets there. The feminists are perfectly glad to make false accusations and then cla…"

"Bill Cohen had a will-earned reputation as a thoughtful, decisive Secretary of Defense. When the staff lit up the plasma screens and ran the tapes of the Bright Star exercise, showing how the friendly…"

"You think I wuh-wuh-wuh-want to stay in here? You think I wouldn't like a con-con-vertible and a guh-guh-girl friend? But did you ever have people l-l-laughing at you? No, because you're so b-big and …"

"The amazing thing about Jeep is that no one thinks of it as an American brand—it’s nationally neutral"

"Experience is the consequence of activity. The manager literally wades into the swarm of "events" that surround him and actively tries to unrandomize them and impose some order: The manager acts physi…"

"When I was repairing the temple of Dwarkadeesh at Dwaraka I had to demolish a modern building in front of it and I found the 9th Century temple of Vishnu. I got curious and dug further deeper in 1979-…"

"I can’t keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty."

"We are getting to be of an age when it is difficult to grow new friends; we haven't the energy, the time to cultivate; each one gone is a permanent impoverishment."

"Have you noticed that about journalists—all they really want to talk about is themselves."

"I admire only two types of people: the potentially mad and the potential suicide."

"I think Marshall was a great economist, but he was a potentially much greater economist than he actually was. It was not that he was lazy, but his health was not good, and he worked in miniature."

"Warlocks are something like doctors, I guess. No matter how much you like them personally, there is quite a bit of nasty mess involved in their line of work."

"Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of m…"

"Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These dis…"