I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

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

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

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

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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.

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.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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.

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

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

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

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.