"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better." - Zhang ZiyiTweet
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts." - Margaret Lee RunbeckTweet
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry FordTweet
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaineTweet
"I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy." - Alban BergTweet
"My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism." - John WooTweet
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends." - Truman CapoteTweet
"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship." - Tony GarzaTweet
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." - Thomas JeffersonTweet
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." - AristotleTweet