The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.