There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.