It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

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.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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

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

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

All you need is love.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

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.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

We do not judge the people we love.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.