A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
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.
True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.