I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child so I'm trying to back off but it's hard. I love him so much and he's so funny and cute to me.

Without hurting anybody we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

But based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable and the value of friendship and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?