Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings