Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.

The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.

We are committed to the development of friendship and good neighbourly relations with Pakistan. I believe that Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shares this commitment.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

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

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

In the earlier days, people used to be very emotional about making films. There used to be a great friendship between music directors and directors; today that is missing.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

In every democracy, it is the people's will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.