Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.