One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

Jacqueline Leo

Forget what people say to your face. Look at their actions.

Pope Francis

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone and finding that that's ok with them.

Alain de Botton

This balance between tribe and individuality, community and uniqueness, was a surprise in a world that makes us think we have to make a choice between them.

Gloria Steinem

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman