Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

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

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Silence is the mother of truth.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

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.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

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

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

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

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

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

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.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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?

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

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.

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.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.