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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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