friendship

"During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures."

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

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

"I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase."

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."

"What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing."

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

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

"Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless."

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

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

"No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground."

"Any friendship or relationship is about a language."

"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship."

"Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child."