friendship

"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

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

"When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship."

"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."

"To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

"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."

"Friendship is something that is cultivated."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!"

"I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."

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