In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

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.

If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is [with Gayle King].

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.