A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Everybody needs one essential friend.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.