• "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." - Ann Landers Tweet
• "The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship." - E. W. Howe Tweet
• "At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation." - Li Peng Tweet
• "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well." - Charles de Lint Tweet
• "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!" - William Hazlitt Tweet
• "The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity." - Ulysses S. Grant Tweet
• "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington Tweet
• "Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl." - Tahar Ben Jelloun Tweet
• "Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference." - Emil Ludwig Tweet
• "The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate." - William Shenstone Tweet