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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

“I was a friend with him and his wife, and we maintained our friendship after he left.”

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Friends hurt friends. They don’t mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love.

True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.

For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

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