Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.