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

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

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 die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

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 have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

He who hath many friends hath none.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Friends are thieves of time.

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.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.