"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
— Muhammad Ali

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."
— Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

"Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

"The best mirror is an old friend."
— George Herbert

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
— John Churton Collins

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

"There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met."
— Jim Henson (Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets)

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
— John Holmes

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
— Dorothy Parker