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

A lie cannot live.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

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

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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

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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Friends are thieves of time.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

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.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

God always has patience.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

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.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

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

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

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.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.