Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

— Winnie The Pooh (A.A. Milne)

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.                                                                                    —C.S. Lewis

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

—Abraham Lincoln

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!                                                                                   —Colette

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.                                                                  —Alice Walker

A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.

—Christi Mary Warner

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

 —Carl Jung

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

 —Robert Brault

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren’t bad people; they’re just acquaintances.

 —Jay Leno

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do.  Think up something appropriate and do it.

 —Edgar Watson Howe

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

 —William Blake

It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

—Ethel Barrymore

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

—proverb

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.               —John Leonard