friendship

"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."

"It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

"I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."

"I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."

"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."

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

"When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is 'iron brother.' To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as 'Iron Pak.' This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship."

"China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty."

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."

"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."