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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.