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

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

In romantic relationships, there's no guarantee that someone will be there forever. But there's something about best friendship where there's no end; there are just iterations. That's beautiful because we put so much pressure on romantic relationships to be the one thing and to be everything.

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.

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.

I've known Brisa Trinchero for years. Our friendship blossomed in our love for the arts, but it's come into full bloom as I've watched Brisa growing her own company from the ground up. She's a relentless worker with a big heart and an imaginative mind.

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.