True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.