• "My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it." - Georg Brandes Tweet
• "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship." - Oscar Wilde Tweet
• "Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them." - Francesco Guicciardini Tweet
• "Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones." - Charles de Montesquieu Tweet
• "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you." - Anne Lamott Tweet
• "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch Tweet
• "The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live." - Armistead Maupin Tweet
• "A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." - Fawn M. Brodie Tweet
• "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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