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

— C.S. Lewis

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

— David Tyson

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Walter Winchell

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive."

— Anaïs Nin

"A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles."

— Tim Cahill

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."

— Mark Twain

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."

— Confucius

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."

— A.B. Alcott