There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

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

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.