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

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

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

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

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

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

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

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.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

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.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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.

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

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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.

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

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

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

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.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

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.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

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

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

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

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.

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

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.