The echo of two boys playing in a pool testing each other to see who could hold their breath the longest.… Whadda ya wanna do now?— I know, we could wrestle like the Roman gladiators—...

I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

It’s probably as much as I appreciate yours.

Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

We’re the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don’t need to say so; it’s just true. Sometimes it seems like we’re so close we form one single complete person...

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Her Prince! He might not be the handsomest man on earth. Not even the richest one too but he would have the purest of the heart and soul and he will love her with the...

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

…And friends abroad must bear in mindFriends at home they leave behind.Oh, I shall be stiff and coldWhen I forget you, hearts of gold;The land where I shall mind you notIs the land where all’s...

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew...

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click–you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them your whole life and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding…and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and...

That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, ‘I can’t be friends with you, you’re too intense, you’re too sad all the time.’ I really thought that when I made the first...

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

My dementia hasn’t just affected me – it’s affected my friends and family, too.

I Can Be Alone and it’s Okay.

I don’t have many friends. It’s not because I’m a misanthrope. It’s because I’m reserved. I’m self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I’m writing my books.

Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand. What you...

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they’re able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they...

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we...

Enemies who vow not to see you achieve it and friends who say you can’t do it… ARE THE SAME…!!! They just don’t want you to make it happen! Stay away!

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends – there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless – be unhappy – and die a...

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

Playing with friends is a victory.

A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. – I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at...

I guess we all travel through life in a haze of sorts. A fog. The people we only meet in the fog we allow ourselves to lose because it’s not our fault. It’s the fog’s....

We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family

A dream isn’t worth living if you don’t have friends to live it with.

If one’s friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.” (pg. 18)

The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.

Always there whom we believe shouldn’t be and never are there whom we believe should be.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, ‘Wow, you’re still friends with your ex, man? Really? That’s weird.’ I don’t play that.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

I wasn’t concerned, but I was thinking that the fastest way to get your mind off him and on me would be to tell you something truly appalling about him.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They...

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two...

It was weird the way you could be friends with someone but not really know the ugly parts of their lives. We all had our secrets, I supposed.

My best friends are just girls who go to school. They’re not in the industry, and we have dinner nights and learn how to cook together and go on hiking trails and the beach.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

Solo me queda decir que amo a esta mujer más que a mi vida, y pase lo que pase, haga lo que haga nunca voy a dejar de amarla. Ella fue, es y siempre será...

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.

Friendship isn’t about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.