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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.