“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.”

“Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.”

“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.”

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

“There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.”

“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”

“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”