No birth certificate is issued when a friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It’s like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you, but instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you. --Steve Tesich

Friends aren’t jumper cables. You don’t throw them in the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. --Charlie Krueger

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else. --Len Wein

A friend is a person:
Who will help you in the hour or sickness;
who will lend you a dollar without deducting the interest;
Who will help you uphill when you are sliding down;
Who will defend you in the hour when others speak ill of you;
Who will believe in your innocence until you admit your guilt;
Who will say behind your back what he says to your face;
Who will shake hands with you wherever he meets you, even though you wear patches; and
Who will do these things without expecting any return. --Dorothy C. Retsloff

It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers. --Anon

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each others’ worth. --Robert Southey

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. --David Tyson Gentry

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend. --Albert Camus

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. --Anon

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. --Thomas Hughes

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. --Henry Ward Beecher

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. --Elbert Hubbard

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood. Overcome space, and all we have left is here. Overcome time, and all we have left is now. And in the middle of here and now, don’t you think we might see each other once or twice? --Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull