friendship

"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."

"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."

"Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"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."

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

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

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

"The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love."

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."

"Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired."

"My friends are my estate."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song."

"The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally."