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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.