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.

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.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Children make your life important.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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