I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn’t your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.

My friends are my estate.

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

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.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

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

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.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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

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.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

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.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

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

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

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Friends are thieves of time.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

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

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

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

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.