“Friendships are very intense over there. Those that I really came in contact with and became close with -- I had the feeling that ... they would protect me to the death. And in the case of Col. Mohammed and Mohammed, his driver, they did that.”

“Our members build life-long friendships while their working their hearts in our facility. Once the physician-ordered portion of their rehabilitation is over, they don't want to leave; so they keep coming on their own accord.”

“Some of the people that we'd see when we first started, they do get apartments and jobs and everything. Sometimes we see a direct change just in them becoming more social, in developing friendships.”

“[He was convicted in June 2000 of criminal solicitation. He served two years in prison, where he reportedly struck a friendship with] Son of Sam ... a very, very nice, friendly man, but a little overweight.”

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.

I think if our new direction in all our relationships is friendship, compassion, and enjoyment, we will easily be able to break our old cycle of bad habits and develop something deeper and more meaningful

The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.