Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

My friends are my estate.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Love is a friendship set to music.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.