A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

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