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

True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What You too? I thought I was the only one

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff

I haven’t seen my old friends in a while. Maybe next week I’ll go visit them in the nursing home.

There was a unique pleasure in knowing a friend so well, Reynie reflected, rather like sharing a secret code.

We wear many things,   but that with greatest import     is our expression.

and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.

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