A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think read more

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Good friends are good for your health.

Good friends are good for your health.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters read more

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 friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

To the world you are just one person, but to one person you could mean the world.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

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

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

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it read more

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. 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 now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is read more

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.