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

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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.

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