It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.