When one has love for God one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife children relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back they don't sue and they don't have angry relatives.

Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

People in Afghanistan want peace including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families they have relatives they have children they are suffering a tough time.

Well I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence in fact make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.