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.

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

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.

Friends are thieves of time.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

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

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

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.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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.

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.

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

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

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.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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

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

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

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

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

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.

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

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.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

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

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?

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

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

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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.

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

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

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

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

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.