There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

My friends are my estate.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

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.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

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.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I don’t like being alone.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.