Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

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.

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

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

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

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

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

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.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

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

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

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

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

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

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

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 who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

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

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

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

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

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Our nation must come together to unite.