friendship

"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."

"I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship."

"But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost."

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"Love and friendship exclude each other."

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"Your friend is your needs answered."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

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

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

"I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked."

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

"No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people."