Quotes

I've enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons... and I'd like to keep it that way.

'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.

If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy - it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything... you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you're forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you're forming a friendship.

You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I think in order to really create something special, it has to be built on some foundation. And I think friendship is a good foundation you could always tap back on if you don't agree. So for me, it's not dating, it's more so friendship.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Love and friendship are really the key, I believe, to a relationship - although I can't claim to be an expert!

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

When we're talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

It's so great to be able to express the friendship between men.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.