“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces”

“They end up building a relationship with the patients, and it becomes more of a friendship and a companionship and then you find that they give a bit more.”

To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

You may control people physically by force, but you won’t change their hearts and minds—that requires trust and friendship.