"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
— Charles Dickens

"One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."
— Oscar Wilde

"He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In !

From the poem " Outwitted ""
— Edwin Markham

"Her only way home was to betray her friend."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"...A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Satus symbols mean nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. "
— John Grogan (Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog)

"لا يوجد في الدنيا غرباء .. وإنما أصدقاء لم يتعارفوا بعد"
— انيس منصور

"We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend."
— Tonya Hurley (Ghostgirl)

"If you feel naked, be naked"
— Sarah Dippy

"You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story."
— Patricia Briggs (The Hob's Bargain)

"For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves"
— Sandra Kring (The Book of Bright Ideas)

"Faults are soon copied. "
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus

"I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend."
— Anne Bishop (Heir to the Shadows)

"‘This is [her] soul group.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.’"
— James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision)

"Are you confused...?
I rest my case."
— Annie Record