Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now...

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company

It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance!

Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.

Do not ever fear your enemies, who attack you relentlessly, But do ever be afraid of the friends who flatter you habitually.[231]- 4 (Thoughts)

We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...