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" If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines. "

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

" Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight. "

" Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned. "

" In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. "

" I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. "

" I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet. "

Neale Donald Walsch

" The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? "

" Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. "

" Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. "

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Jean de La Fontaine

" It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. "

Theophile Gautier

" Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "

George Washington

" Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. "

" I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back. "

" Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. "

" I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely. "

Alexander Graham Bell

" But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. "

" I've often been told that I'm a 30-year-old trapped in a teenager's body. I don't know how I feel about that, but I'll take it, I guess. I'm definitely mature, and I'm the one that takes care of everyone in my friendship group. "

" Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. "

Margaret Walker

" Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship. "

" On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. "

Martin Seligman

" '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. "

" My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. "

" Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. "

" I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people. "

" Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. "

" The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger. "

" To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. "

" I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. "

Henry David Thoreau