A friend is a gift you give yourself.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.