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" The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn. "

Stacey D'Erasmo

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" I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. "

Warren Christopher

" Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

" Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. "

" She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

" At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. "

" I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources. "

" Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. "

" 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. "

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

Oliver Goldsmith

" There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. "

William Hazlitt

" One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. "

" My friends are my estate. "

Emily Dickinson

" As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship. "

" What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? "

" When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

" The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. "

" It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship. "

Emma McLaughlin

" 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? "

" The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. "

" We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second. "

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

Margaret Walker

" Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her? "

Stacey D'Erasmo

" Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship. "

" I only understand friendship or scorched earth. "

" 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

" The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. "

Hector Hugh Munro

" The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. "

William Shenstone

" 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. "

Francois Lelord

" I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. "

Saint Augustine