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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

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

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