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.

Love, friendship, laughter... some of the best things in life really are free.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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.