There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.