We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Interpretation
True friendship is vital for a secure future, reminding us of its importance can help ensure our own well-being.
Henry A. Kissinger emphasizes the significance of friendship in shaping our future. While we may not have control over our friends' destinies, acknowledging and valuing these relationships can provide us with a stronger foundation and support system, ultimately contributing to our own future successes and security.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a gathering to remind friends of their importance in our lives.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that werenβt realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
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