Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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