Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

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