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

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.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.