Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Samuel Paterson

It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Woodrow Wilson

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Len Wein

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

Proverbs

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.

Tehyi Hsieh

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

William Penn

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Charles Peguy

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Bernard Meltzer