I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The 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.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I 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.

My friends, there are no friends.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Your friend is your needs answered.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Throughout 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.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

If 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.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I 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.