One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.