Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.