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

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.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

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