The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

The many faces of intimacy: the victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

"A friend is never known till he is needed."

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquillity and sedateness.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.