I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

I force people to have coffee with me just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success I'd probably choose success.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

My inspiration are the woman friendship and loneliness.

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms but which will bloom most constantly?

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine or enjoy friendship love or life.