A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

True 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 only cement that will ever hold the world together.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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 who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.