A lot of the powerful religious leaders from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable and the value of friendship and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things more precious than getting your own way more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Time makes friendship stronger but love weaker.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

The rare few who early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

When the world is so complicated the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy it lessens our cares by dividing them at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings their weakness. It's also about mutual help not about exploitation.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

I think in friendship you want to be there for your friend and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

As told in Friendship with God if we simply decided to believe and act as if first we're all one and second life is eternal it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before or else estrange them.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship jokes and laughter.