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

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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

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

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