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

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

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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

I love life because what more is there?

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

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

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Losing is tough.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

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

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.