Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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