Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Lots of people want 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.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.