Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

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.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

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

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

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

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

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

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

My friends, there are no friends.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

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.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.