One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.