I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

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.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

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.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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

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

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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?

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

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.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

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.

The human heart is the same the world over.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

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

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

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.

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.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

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

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?

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.