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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can not have too many friends because then you are just not really friends.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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.

Do not flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can not get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That is in friendship, that is a deal, that is a commitment. Do not give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that is for life.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I have ever thought I do have.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.