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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I think it is important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Friendship is two-sided. It is not a friend just because someone doing something nice for you. That is a nice person. There is friendship when you do for each other. It is like marriage - it is two-sided.

One life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they are fun, they do things together, they are best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they are going to respect Mom.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.