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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.