When I was growing up my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is) and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Most importantly nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.