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

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

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

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

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.