The best mirror is an old friend.
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.
I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.
It was the closest she’d ever come to praying. Even in her darkest moments, she had never turned to God. That was her mom’s deal, not hers.
Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.
If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.
