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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

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

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

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.

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

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

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.

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.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I like to look good, my friend.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.