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

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

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.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

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

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.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

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

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.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

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.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

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

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Your friend is your needs answered.

What you guys want, I’m for.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.