Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

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.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

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.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I’d make my friends be in them and then edit them.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

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.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

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

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.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

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

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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.

I need physics more than friends.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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

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

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.

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.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

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.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

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

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.

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.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Fortune befriends the bold.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

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!

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

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.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

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

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.