David Rockefeller Quotes

Relationships are so important to all of us.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

I'm very close with my family and friends.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Life is nothing without friendship.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.