I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

“It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.”

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”

“The most important thing was how they radiated friendship for each other. We're looking for a way to broadcast that nationally.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!”

“So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations”

“The village is running smoothly and people are continuing to build relationships with one another, friendships across lines, ... mayor.”