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.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
The best mirror is an old friend.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
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