A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.