Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I need physics more than friends.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.