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

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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

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.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

My friends, there are no friends.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

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.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

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.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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

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.

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

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

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

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.