Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

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

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

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

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

I like to look good, my friend.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

My friends, there are no friends.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

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

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I never fall in love.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.