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.
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn't come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he'd made and a note that said, 'John, I'd love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.'
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.
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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