I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A true friend freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

True friends stab you in the front.

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 healing not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic actionable program of fundamental change one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens big change will not come.

That's free enterprise friends: freedom to gamble freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.