When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

God 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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

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

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.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

OVOXO will always be there.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Laughter is America’s most important export.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

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

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.