The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friendship that can end never really began." Publilius Syrus

"Lovers have a right to betray you. Friends don't." Judy Holliday

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

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

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." Laurence J. Peter

"Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again." John O'Donohue

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." Dale Carnegie

"Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends." Virginia Woolf

"The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?" Eugene Kennedy

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." Cicero

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." Euripides 

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.--Jesse Jackson 

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." Octavia Butler

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." Paramahansa Yogananda

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away." Barbara Kingsolver