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

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings