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.
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
My friends are my estate.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Your friend is your needs answered.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
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