The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.