The friends of my friends are my friends.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Question: How about friends—how many do you have?
Answer: Oh, my friendships reach over all boundaries of time and space—they are ancient, modern, from the east and from the west. The number probably would not be far short of three hundred and, of these, if I had to name the most celebrated, I suppose it would be Kleist, Mainländer, Weininger. . . .
Question: So your friends are all suicides, are they? Answer: No, this is not invariably the case. A man like Montaigne, who advocated and justified suicide, is one of my most esteemed friends. But I cannot bring myself to associate with fellows like Schopenhauer, the pessimist weary of life who did not kill himself.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

You know that I have had strong leanings towards Communism and have many friends among Communists.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives...

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends

I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working-class...well, not working class.

My friends are my estate.

I have had many friends—Conservatives, Liberals, yes, and multitudes of those who hold no attachment to any party. I cast myself on the people whose cause I have never betrayed during the thirty-two years of a strenuous public life. They are a just and generous people, and to those who have done their best to render them service, and I claim to have rendered them service, they will see fair play. I am not afraid of the future.