My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

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

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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 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.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friends are thieves of time.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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.

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

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I like to look good, my friend.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

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

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

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

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

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

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

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

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

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.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

OVOXO will always be there.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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

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.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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

Friendship is essentially a partnership.