So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere…. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.