Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

—Anais Nin

A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud.

 —Ralph Waldo Emerson

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

—Barbara Colorose

Two shorten the road.

—Irish proverb

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

—Charlotte Bronte

Hold a true friend with both hands.

—Nigerian proverb

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.

—C. S. Lewis

It’s the ones you can call up at 4 am that really matter.

—Marlene Dietrich

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

—Walter Winchell

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

—A. A. Milne

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

—Thomas Jefferson

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

—Abraham Lincoln

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!

 —Colette

Those truly linked don’t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

—Deng Ming-Dao