I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Opposition is true friendship.

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?

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.