Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Friends are thieves of time.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

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

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

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.

True friends stab you in the front.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

All mankind love a lover.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.