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

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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.

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.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against 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.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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

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

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

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

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

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

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

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

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

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.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

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

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

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.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

True friends stab you in the front.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

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

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.