It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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

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.

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

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

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

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.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

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.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

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.

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

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

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

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

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.

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

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

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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 will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Let the path be open to talent.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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.