What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one's a bit spiky and the other's daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.
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.
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.