Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

Through the many changes I have seen over the years, faith, family, and friendship have been not only a constant for me, but a source of personal comfort and reassurance.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.