My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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