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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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 what the heart needs all the time.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken, it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.