A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.