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Love is friendship set to music.

Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.