A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

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

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

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

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

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.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Bring them on.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

True friends stab you in the front.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

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 friends are my estate.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

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.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.