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

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!