Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

“One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements”

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

“It wasn't just friendship. It was detailing feelings toward each other. There was some sexual involved in the letters.”

“He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway,”

“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love”

“Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.”