But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
True friends stab you in the front.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
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.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic actionable program of fundamental change one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens big change will not come.
That's free enterprise friends: freedom to gamble freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.