Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.
I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches. . . Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.
I was 21 and I got to film with my best friend.
God created man to share friendship with Him and share in His happiness.
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.