It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPositional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
John C. MaxwellI married my best friend that happens to be a girl.
Kevin GatesLet me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack ObamaWe must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
Herbert HooverI never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
Maya AngelouThe kids are a big part of my schedule.
Bill GatesThe more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard ShawWhen I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
Dwayne JohnsonTo be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.
Amy WinehouseIf you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
Lady GagaI make friends faster and easier than journalists.
Anthony BourdainBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas JeffersonAny man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
Mr. TThe devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
Bob MarleyA friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich NietzscheFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil GibranI had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven WrightI couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.
Anthony HopkinsI think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn MonroeMy personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray BradburySixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam SandlerHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
AristotleThe fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
J. K. RowlingNo one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
AristotleLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonChildren make your life important.
Erma BombeckMost women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Erma BombeckI can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
Ariana GrandeSometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.
Frank OceanI have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.
Anne FrankShared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich NietzscheGod is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Emily DickinsonIf you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.
Margaret ThatcherNo woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander PopeI always entertain great hopes.
Robert FrostIf all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalPeace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas JeffersonA lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
Bill GatesThe feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel JohnsonCan anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich NietzscheI do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.
Lando NorrisI have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
Joe BidenDream and you shall become.
Wayne DyerNever injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranIt is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheI was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.
John WayneI didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.
Steven WrightThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan PoeWhen I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam SandlerYou’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe BidenMy aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
Dalai LamaThroughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt Cobain