Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

My 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.

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

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

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

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

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

God always takes the simplest way.

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

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

A promise must never be broken.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

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

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.