I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.

Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

All lasting business is built on friendship.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

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

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

I take friendship very seriously.

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.