It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.