Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

My family are my friends.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Friendships are this fun team. You get to have partners in crime.

I can count on one hand the people I could call and who would be there for me.

All I know is Karen is besties with Donny and Melania.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

The expression that friends are the family you choose, is so powerful, because most people are close with their families, and when you add people into that level of trust, love, and loyalty, it's a really meaningful thing. The fact you're actively choosing each other is so beautiful at its core.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

A friend is never an imposition.

I've gotten to the point where the label of "best friend" is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world. I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. There's Jennifer [Stone], my friend Ashley, and Taylor, and my two cousins.

I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I am lucky that I have a few of those. So, I just drew on that and the people who believe in me as they lift you up. It's really important to have people around you that do that.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.