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.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

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.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

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.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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.

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

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

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

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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

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

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.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Friends are thieves of time.