When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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