Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

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

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

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

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

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

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

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

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

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

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

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

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

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.