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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.