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

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

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

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

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

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

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

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.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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.

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.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

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?

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

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

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

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.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

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.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

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?

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

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

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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

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