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

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

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.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

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

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