Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself. - John Mayall. View more images...

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. - George Santayana. View more images...

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men. - Thomas Carlyle. View more images...

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. - Khalil Gibran. View more images...

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. - Charles de Lint. View more images...

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison. View more images...

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. - Mao Zedong. View more images...

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. - Attributed to Heather Pryor. View more images...

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors. - The Panchatantra. View more images...

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. - Mark Twain. View more images...

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins. View more images...

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung. View more images...

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness. - Marshall McLuhan. View more images...

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...