One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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