It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
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.
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
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