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

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

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

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

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

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

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.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

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.

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

Beauty and folly are old companions.

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.

Your friend is your needs answered.

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

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.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

I don’t like being alone.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

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.

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

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.

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

My friends are my estate.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.