A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.Che Guevara
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.Simone Weil
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.Simone Weil
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.Simone Weil
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.F. Scott Fitzgerald
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.Michel de Montaigne