"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)

"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born."
(Anais Nin)

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words."
(Anonymous)

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is."
(James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'"
(Clive Staples Lewis)

"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
(Walt Whitman)

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
(Samuel Johnson)

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
(George Washington)