We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
~ Jean de la Bruyere

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate him. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything he believes or does. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise conviction to be compassionate.
~ Rick Warren

You know you grew up in the wrong part of the town when most of your friends are dead, in witness protection, or serving life sentences.

Friendship and money: oil and water.
~ Mario Puzo

Unforgiveness is like taking poison and then expecting someone else to slowly die.
~ T.D. Jakes

A sincere giver of a gift expects nothing in return. Even a meal is offered without anticipation of a token of appreciation for the hostess as etiquette suggests.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society; when we have taken this resolve (and we have to do so or we will end up foolish, weak and villainous), the result is that we will have to live more or less on our own.
~ Nicolas de Chamfort

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

My enemy’s enemy is my friend.

It is better to know someone despite his faults than not to know someone at all.
~ Roberto Goizueta

Conditions for a good and lasting relationship: Faith, integrity and humility.

Grandparents and grandchildren are allies against a common enemy.
~ Philip Toynbee

Only love can mend a situation in which personal relationships are broken. Rebuke and criticism are liable to awaken only resentment and hostility. Argument and controversy are liable only to widen the breach. Love is the one thing to heal the breach and restore the lost relationship.
~ Charles Spurgeon

If a dialog can’t mend a broken relationship, a monologue may begin the healing.

It has been said that nations, unlike people, don’t have friends; they have interests. Sadly, people have become a lot like nations.

Venskab lever af et overskud. Det ernærer sig af de kræfter, som ikke gik i praktisk tjeneste hos Eros eller Merkur. Det kan derfor ikke fejle, at den, der kan have venner, er netop også den, der kan tåle ensomhed.
~ Jacob Paludan

Tidens afmagt i forståelse af venskab finder et sublimt ironisk udtryk i den kendsgerning, at de resterende par venner bevislig efterhånden mistænkes for at have homoseksuelle tendenser.
~ Jacob Paludan