Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I’ve had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner...

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

I’ve struggled a lot to get where I am. I initially got rejected by every producer. But no complaints. I enjoyed each and every moment of the struggle. My first break came in 1997 from...

I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was...

Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue...

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue...

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for...

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook’s best friend.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say...

A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the...

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can’t change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It’s my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us,...

Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he...

This is my life,” Mandy declared, smiling sincerely. Alecto just looked concerned and very doubtful as the rain drizzled down the roads and sidewalks, towards the harbour where it fell into the ocean, indistinguishable from...

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

Moi qui éprouve, comme chacun, le besoin d’être reconnu, je me sens pur en toi et vais à toi. J’ai besoin d’aller là où je suis pur. Ce ne sont point mes formules ni mes...

All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.

Such a profound occurrence, when the priorities of those in our lives shine so brightly a path away from who we once thought they were. This light sears insights onto us and helps us along...

But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what...

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend...

When you become a raindrop in your mind Thunder is the closest friend you may find Wind lashed trees, dark clouds, lightning or the dust Everything you will bear once you adjust

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they...

Write me, so it delights me in such a way to torment me.

FRIENDOnly when you have walked with me through the valley of hardship…When you have fought beside me against an evil foe…When you have cried with me through a painful heartache…When you have laughed with me...

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good...

There’s no tonic like an old friend.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was...

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is “sympathy” – sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered...

I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself...

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.