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.

My friends are my estate.

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.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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

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

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 married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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

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.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

Your friend is your needs answered.

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?

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

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

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

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

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

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

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

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.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

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.

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

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

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

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

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.

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

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.