The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.