The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

The gift of friendship... A willingness to listen... A pair of helping hands... A whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, and no investment on the street pays larger dividends, for life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, and he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advise, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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.

When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

When you go somewhere your heart goes with you, but when you leave your friends their heart goes with yours.

When you know who his friend is, you know who he is.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

When you stop spending time with real friends, you lose your balance.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

It is in the thirties that we want Friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in kaaba nor kailas, but here right within you am I.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

"A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you."

Where there are friends there is wealth.