My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

The 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.

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

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

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!‘

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

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

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

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I like to look good, my friend.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I don’t really like being in the centre of attention.

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

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

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

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

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.

True friends stab you in the front.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

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

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

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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