Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

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

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.