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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.