Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

God gives us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together let no man put asunder.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go just focus on you and your future.

Use your lives wisely my friends and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

When I was in college I was in the theater department which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious but most of the time really goofy and funny.

See I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times eat at least 45 chocolate bars and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that through a combination of Nutella old pals and Barbra Streisand we can achieve happiness and very probably world peace.

It's funny but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is nothing is more boring people like this. For me it's OK. But most of my friends at least they smoke and drink.

In my circle of friends I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

As I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

I no doubt deserved my enemies but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I loved my 17 years with R.E.M. but I'm ready to reflect assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.