#friend

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel."

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws."

"Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously."

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."

"If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich."

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."

"I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness."

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past."

"My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of."

"Snow is not microwave friendly. In fact, snow is not too friendly at all, unless you first buy it a few beers. Then it’s just downright slutty."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people."