I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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.

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.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

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

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