Jon Katz Quotes

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

If you can't share with your friends, who can you share with?

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

I'm good at picking friends.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.