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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.