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.

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

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

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

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.

I didn’t play with other children.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

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

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

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.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

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

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.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

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 grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

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.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

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

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.