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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

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

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.