In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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?

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

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.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

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

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

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

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.

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

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

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

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.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.