Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

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

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

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.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

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

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

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.