One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable and the value of friendship and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things more precious than getting your own way more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

As told in Friendship with God if we simply decided to believe and act as if first we're all one and second life is eternal it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Sixth grade was a big time in my childhood of hoops and friendship and coming up with funny things.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere whether it is holding out a hand of friendship or making clear that you disapprove of something is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being so the goal is to always establish common ground.

My parents and librarians along the way taught me about the space between words about the margins where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed in the friendliest way.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream when I lock into someone or something you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship that's a deal that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand that's for life.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.

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?