Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
Always abide by your positive principles even if it would result in most of your friends abandoning you. Friendship is about quality not quantity.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Great relationships are like vitamins to the soul. They help us connect, laugh, dream and grow. Make time for friendship and fellowship.
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.
Friendship isn't about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.
Lacke: Thank you again for another evening steeped in merriment and friendship.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
