When I wasn’t famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

I don’t really believe in cliques – I think everyone can be friends with everyone.

When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friends don’t get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we’ll come up with some scary stuff.

We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much...

He’s a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you...

When I say ‘friends,’ I use that term loosely, as I don’t actually have any.

Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken four days for his energy to weaken inside her enough that he could go and visit...

I heard that when white folks go fishin they do somethin called ‘catch and release.’Catch and release? I nodded solemnly, suddenly nervous and curious at the same time.’That really bothers me’, Denver went on. ‘I...

Love is floating somewhere in the beautiful horizon with an equal wave length with same frequency of intense feelings

On that piece of white paper, Sam wrote, “Write about me sometime.” And I typed back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed. “I will.”And I felt good that those were...

As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don’t know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you...

We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations.

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of – as though it’s some kind of runner-up prize for people who can’t have sex.

The people in my circle? Those who make me feel blessed; not stressed.

I know a couple of my friends – quite a few – there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves.

I think wow, I imagine this is what it’s like to have friends.

All my friends are like, ‘Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?’ and I’m like, ‘I got this.’

Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?

One way to tell if you’re really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don’t feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or...

But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of...

They don’t sell friends in stores….

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed,...

15 years later, it’s all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it’s the cast of Friends or That ’70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that,...

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn’t really fall into ‘the Disney mold.’ I was more or less the...

A dog is a good friend of a man and perhaps better than many of his best friends.

I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My...

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Even though everybody hates you, you’ll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those...

Aaah, summer – that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and...

It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that...

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having ‘a sweep’, do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of ‘Step...

When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who didn’t know about the assigned seats. Sitting at my table was...

I think it is possible to be friends even if you’re competing. You know, there’s so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn’t work. It only hinders their...

Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or...

Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.

I usually only play with very close friends.