Inspirational Friend Quotes: A Heartfelt Collection to Celebrate True Friendship

"If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together…there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Love is friendship set on fire."

- Jeremy Taylor

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

- Anthony Robbins

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Euripides

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

- C. S. Lewis

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend."

- King Solomon

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

- Henry van Dyke

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

- Charles Darwin

"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."

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

- Socrates

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

- John Leonard

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

- Epicurus

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

- William Penn

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

- Len Wein

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

- Alice Walker

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

- Toni Morrison

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

- Octavia E. Butler

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

- Plutarch

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

- Abraham Lincoln

"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."

- Henri Nouwen

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

- Muhammad Ali

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

- Jim Morrison

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

- C.S. Lewis

"Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace."

- Christie Brinkley

"Don’t make friends who you are comfortable with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself."

- Heidi Wills

"Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power."

- Jane Fonda

"The truth of the matter is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you’re never going through anything alone. You can choose your family."

- Jennifer Lopez

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- Ice Cube

"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."

- Henri Nouwen

"Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

- Eugene Kennedy

"In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

- Thomas Fuller

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about."

- Mindy Kaling

"Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them."

- Anna Taylor

"I can’t believe I’ve known you for 20 years and you’re still my favorite person to talk to."

- Jess Day

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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

- Tennessee Williams

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buechner

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

"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."

- Albert Camus

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

- Toni Morrison

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

- Thomas Aquinas

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

- William Shakespeare

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."

- Gina Barreca

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart."

- Helen Keller

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities—good and bad."

- Mohanlal

"Friendship is born at the moment when one says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

- Oprah

"I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."

- Jon Katz

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."

- Dean Koontz

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."

- William Shakespeare

"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold."

- Joseph Parry

"We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

- Aristotle

"True friendship resists time, distance, and silence."

- Isabel Allende

"If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever."

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Elisabeth Foley

"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you."

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"Friendships between women, as many women will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses…swapped back and forth and over again."

- Michelle Obama

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is no time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

- Octavia Butler

"The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life."

- Chelsea Handler

"And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"A good friend is a connection to life—a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

"That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do."

- R. J. L.

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands."

- Maria Shriver

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."

- Ed Cunningham

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

- Francis Bacon

"A friend knows the song in my heart and signs it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

"We’re sisters; you’re my family. What is you, is me. There’s nothing that you could ever say to make me let go."

- Blair Waldorf

"True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. Fake friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere."

- Ari Joseph

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face."

- Maya Angelou

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."

- Sophocles

"You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common."

- Lyle Lovett

"The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship."

- Joseph Addison

"Of all possessions, a friend is the most precious."

- Herodotus

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."

- Cicero

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."

- John Evelyn

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish proverb

"Friendship is the sweetest influence."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

- George Washington

"Friendship is love without wings."

- George Gordon Byron

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled."

- Ally Condie

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

- G. Randolf

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest things you can have."

- Sarah Valdez

"Friends are the family you choose."

- Jess C. Scott

"The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend."

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

"It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

- Marlene Dietrich

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl."

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

"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."

- Thomas Jefferson

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have."

- Irish proverb

"Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul."

- Proverbs 27:9

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

- William Butler Yeats

"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."

- Frances Ward Weller

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

- Elbert Hubbard

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

- Walt Whitman

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

- George Washington

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

- Confucius

"Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ‘em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ‘em."

- Shel Silverstein

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Margaret Walker

"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- Audrey Hepburn

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses."

- David Storey

"Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that."

- Ally Condie

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

- Richard Burton

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

- William Blake

"Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation."

- Tennessee Williams

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

- Aristotle

"My friends are my estate."

- Emily Dickinson

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

- Donna Roberts

"True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style."

- Nicole Richie

"Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad."

- Mohanlal

"Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them."

- C.G. Jung

"Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness."

- Billy Chapata

"Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you."

- Kate DiCamillo

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

- Francesco Guicciardini

"Every new friend is a new adventure… the start of more memories."

- Patrick Lindsay

"The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul."

- Shanna Rodriguez

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there."

- Tony Clark

"There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance."

- Dodinsky

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."

- Robert Southey

"There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound."

- Diana Cortes

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."

- Kahlil Gibran

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

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

- Arnold H. Glasgow

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

- Charles Lamb

"Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them."

- Candlelight Publications

"If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go."

- Matthew Gray Gubler

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

"There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met."

- Jim Henson

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

- Bernard Meltzer

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish Proverb

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."

- Josh Billings

"She’s my friend because we both know what it’s like to have people be jealous of us."

- Cher

"Friend is someone to share the last cookie with."

- Cookie Monster

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

- Sylvia Plath

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

- Emily Dickinson

"You know what sucks about getting older? Your friends have known you for way too long. They’ve got too much on you."

- Nick Miller

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

- John D. Rockefeller

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

- Chanakya

"Best friends share laughs, memories and inside jokes. They will always be honest and stand by your side no matter what. They wipe your tears, pick you up when you fall, and are forever a piece of your heart."

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"True friends aren’t the ones who make your problems disappear. They are the ones who won’t disappear when you’re facing problems."

"Best friends understand when you say, ‘forget it.’ Wait forever when you say, ‘just a minute.’ Stay when you say, ‘leave me alone.’ And open the door before you can say, ‘come in.’"

"When it hurts to look back and you’re afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there."

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say."

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part."

"That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you — the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you — because that is what people are supposed to do."

"Throughout life you will meet one person who is like no other. You could talk to this person for hours and never get bored, you could tell this person things and they will never judge you. This person is your soulmate, your best friend. Don’t ever let them go."

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

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

"Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust."

"No friendship is an accident."

"Everyone has a friend during each stage of life. But only lucky ones have the same friend in all stages of life."

"Life was meant for good friends and great adventures."

"True friends are always together in spirit."

"A best friend is someone who makes you laugh even when you think you’ll never smile again."

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter and live better."

"It’s not being in love that makes me happy. It is the person that I am in love with that does."

"Best friend: the one that you can be mad at only for a short period of time because you have important stuff to tell them."

"You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend. I’ll train you."

"We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much."

"Best friends don’t care if your house is clean. They care if you have wine."

"It’s hard to find a friend who’s cute, loving, generous, caring, and smart. My advice to y’all is, don’t lose me."

"I think we’ll be friends forever because we’re too lazy to find new friends."

"Friends buy you food. Best friends eat your food."

"God made us best friends because he knew our moms couldn’t handle us as sisters."

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

"I love that our effortless friendship fits perfectly with my laziness."

"Best friends. Because if anyone else heard our conversations we’d end up in the mental hospital."

"True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically."

"Friendship is so weird…you just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like ‘Yep, I like this one’ and you just do stuff with them."

"We’ll be the old ladies causing trouble in the nursing home."

"A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation, doesn’t always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part."

"We weren’t sisters [or brothers] by birth, but we knew from the start…fate brought us together to be sisters [or brothers] by heart."

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

"Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need."

"A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile."

"A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden."

"It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters."

"In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips."