Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.