I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

Your friend is your needs answered.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

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.

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.

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

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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.

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

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.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

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.

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

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

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

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

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

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

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.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

My friends, there are no friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

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.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

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.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

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.

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?

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

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.

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

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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

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

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

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.