A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

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

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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 single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.