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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.