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.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.
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.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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 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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
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.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.