Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friends... they cherish one another's dreams. They are kind to one another's dreams

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

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

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

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.

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