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

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

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

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.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

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

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

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

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

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

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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

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

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

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 want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

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.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.