Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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