We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
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
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Friendship is love without his wings!
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
