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

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

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

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.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

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.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I like to look good, my friend.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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 may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

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

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

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

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.

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

To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing.

My friends, there are no friends.

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

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friends are thieves of time.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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.

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

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.