friendship

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

"The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

"Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."

"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."

"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."

"For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do."

"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."

"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

"Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share."

"'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."

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."

"Be glad. Be good. Be brave."

"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

"I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship."