Many women. . . have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important. . . Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
Friends are thieves of time.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Frienship is eros. . . without wings
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.
What a thing friendship is - World without end.
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.