A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.