Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
The monster was the best friend I ever had.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Everybody needs one essential friend.
We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'
Somewhere on this planet is your best friend. Find that person.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.