I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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