Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Rare as is true love true friendship is rarer.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly Can never know what true friendship means.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

I thought the more famous I became the more friendships I would have but the opposite was true.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy we think to be loyal to a family and clan whose blood is in your own veins.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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.

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

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life between my friendship with the guys in the band our wonderful audience being able to play this music and then my family.

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

Music is the social act of communication among people a gesture of friendship the strongest there is.

As far as friendships go things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which is cool.

I learned from Mr. Wrigley early in my career that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.