Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

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.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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

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.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

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

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

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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.

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

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

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.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

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.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

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

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

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