Choi Si-won Quotes

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

Wherever I went the Indians treated me honorably and gave me food …

Israel is grateful that America believes in us.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say