Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.