My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

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.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

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

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

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.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

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

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best 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.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

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 have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

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

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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.

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

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

I do not like the human race. I don’t like their heads, I don’t like their faces, I don’t like their feet, I don’t like their conversations, I don’t like their hairdos, I don’t like their automobiles.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.