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

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

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.

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

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

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.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

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

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

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.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

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.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

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

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.