Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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?

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

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.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

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.

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

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

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

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

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

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Your friend is your needs answered.

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.

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.

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

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

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

He who hath many friends hath none.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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

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.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s – the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

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.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

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

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.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

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

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.