The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.