When you start a relationship, there’s part of the friendship that dies – you can never go back.
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it’s still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.
I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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