Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.