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.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

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.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

I love Brad in every state.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

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

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

True friends stab you in the front.

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.

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.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

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.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

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

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

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

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

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

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?