The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.