Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.