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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.