I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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

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!‘

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.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

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.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

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

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.

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

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

I don’t drink at all.

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

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.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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.

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.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

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.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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