The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

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.

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.

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.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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?

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

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.

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.

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

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

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I look after people.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

I supported Donald Trump.

What you guys want, I’m for.

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

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.