A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.