My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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.

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

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.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

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.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

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.

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

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.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

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

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

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

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.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

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

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.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

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

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.

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

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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.

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.

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

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

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

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.