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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.