Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

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 married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

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

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Love is an interesting thing.

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

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

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

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

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

Marriage is scary to me, man.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.