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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.