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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.