My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

"I'm so happy 'cause today I've found my friends....They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you."

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 in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

I love being home. I have friends that come over.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

"Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money."

"I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die."

"Her friends' lips were red, their teeth white, and their tongues and gums were pink. Pink, too, were the tips of their breasts. Their eyes were aquamarine blue, cherry-black, hazel and maroon."

"His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life."

"Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends"

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."

"Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past."

"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."

"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."

"As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"This is going to be such a huge event for my family, my friends. It's going to be such a fun experience. My dad won a bronze in 1956 and now, 50 years later, going back to the same country, I'm going to try and win a medal as well."

"When I wanted to be professionally known as a rapper I said I wanna take the moniker Gucci Mane. But all the people in my hood, not even my closest friends but everybody in Atlanta, calls me Guwop. I didn't start it. I can't put my finger on how it spread. I know it started from my boys but then everybody who I collaborate picked up on it and they'd say it to me."

"I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that."

"Its is Truth and Truth alone, that is one's real friend, relative."