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

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

If you wished to be loved, love.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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?

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Value is what you get.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

It’s important to love in hip hop.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Love is only one of many passions.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Great loves too must be endured.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.