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.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

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

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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

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

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.

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

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

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.

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.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

All mankind love a lover.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

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.

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

My friends, there are no friends.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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.

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.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

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.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

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.

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.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

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

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

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

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.