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

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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.