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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

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

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