H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

Time is so much a part of what makes you close to people.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Memories come out only when you spend time with a person.

I want all of my girlfriends to enjoy each other because life is too short.

The moments that matter most are with your family, your friends. They are the realest moments.

What best friends do so well is they just waste time.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

I'm older, wiser and richer, and I still have just as many headaches. It hasn't changed me drastically; certainly, not in terms of relationships. The people I'm close to, and there aren't many of them, have been close for a long time. And we know each other well enough to know it isn't the quantity of time you spend together, it's the quality.

A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.