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

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

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