To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.